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presbyopic en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /pɹɛsbiˈɒpɪk/ (UK)
• /pɹɛzbiˈɒpɪk/ (UK)

Etymology

Etymology tree English presbyopia Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English presbyopic From presbyopia + -ic.

Meanings

1. Affected by or pertaining to presbyopia.
   • 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 […] 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 11:

Forms

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
more presbyopic	Degree=Cmp		lexicographic
most presbyopic	Degree=Sup		lexicographic

Deriveds

prepresbyopic · presbyopically

presbyopic en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /pɹɛsbiˈɒpɪk/ (UK)
• /pɹɛzbiˈɒpɪk/ (UK)

Etymology

Etymology tree English presbyopia Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English presbyopic From presbyopia + -ic.

Meanings

1. A person who has presbyopia.
   • 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. 2014, Walter J. Kilner, The Human Atmosphere:

Forms

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
presbyopics	Number=Plur		lexicographic

Relateds

myopic