presbyopic

presbyopic

English

Etymology

From presbyopia +‎ -ic.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /pɹɛzbiˈɒpɪk/, /pɹɛsbiˈɒpɪk/
• Rhymes: -ɒpɪk

Adjective

presbyopic (comparative more presbyopic, superlative most presbyopic)

1. Affected by or pertaining to presbyopia. [from 19th c.]
   • 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest, Abacus 2013, p. 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

presbyopic (plural presbyopics)

1. 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

• myopic

References

• presbyopic in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913