ophthalmic
Adjective

ophthalmic (not comparable)

  1. (medicine) Of or pertaining to the eye#Noun|eyes.
    Eyedrops are an ophthalmic solution.
  2. Visionary, look#Verb|looking to the future.
    • 1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter X, in Great Expectations [...] In Three Volumes, volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, OCLC 3359935 ↗, page 161 ↗:
      Yet I do not call to mind that I was ever in my earlier youth the subject of remark in our social family circle, but some large-handed person took some such ophthalmic steps to patronise me.
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