quicksighted en · ADJ
Etymology
From quick + sighted.
Meanings
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(alt-of, alternative) Alternative spelling of quick-sighted.
alt of quick-sighted
Women ought, perhaps, always to make the best critics—at once more quicksighted, more tasteful, more sympathetic than ourselves, whose proper business is creation.
1849 March, Charles Kingsley, “The Poetry of Sacred and Legendary Art”, in Sir Walter Raleigh and His Time, with Other Papers, author’s edition, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, published 1859, →OCLC, page 206:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| more quicksighted | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| most quicksighted | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |