presbyopic
English edit
Etymology edit
From presbyopia + -ic.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
presbyopic (comparative more presbyopic, superlative most presbyopic)
- Affected by or pertaining to presbyopia. [from 19th c.]
- 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 11:
- the Moms, bent way down to me, hand reaching, her lowering face with its presbyopic squint, suddenly stopped, froze, beginning to I.D. what it was I held out […]
Noun edit
presbyopic (plural presbyopics)
- An individual who has presbyopia.
- 2014, Walter J. Kilner, The Human Atmosphere:
- These experiments prove that some alteration has taken place in the eye equivalent to a lengthening of the eye, or a shortening of the principal focus, which enables presbyopics to read without glasses.
See also edit
References edit
- “presbyopic”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.