presbyopic
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /pɹɛzbiˈɒpɪk/, /pɹɛsbiˈɒpɪk/
presbyopic
- 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 […]
- 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest, Abacus 2013, p. 11:
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.
- 2014, Walter J. Kilner, The Human Atmosphere
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