Definitions for myopia

myopia my·o·pi·a

Spelling: [mahy-oh-pee-uh]
IPA: /maɪˈoʊ pi ə/

Myopia is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 82 anagrams from letters in myopia (aimopy).

Definitions for myopia

noun

  1. Ophthalmology. a condition of the eye in which parallel rays are focused in front of the retina, objects being seen distinctly only when near to the eye; nearsightedness (opposed to hyperopia).
  2. lack of foresight or discernment; obtuseness.
  3. narrow-mindedness; intolerance.

Origin of myopia

1685-95; New Latin Greek myōpía, equivalent to myōp- (stem of mýōps) near-sighted, literally, blinking (mý(ein) to shut + ṓps eye) + -ia -ia

Examples for myopia

The myopia, in these cases, is not the cause of the squint, but only a favouring circumstance.

The author's view is evidently distorted by biographer's myopia.

I should like to have asked your opinion about that plan of the myopia golf links.

This myopia was destined to have the most vital influence on his art.

As, however, in spite of this, myopia is present in about 60 per cent.

It is otherwise with the relative divergence which is developed in consequence of myopia.

The most prevalent of these maladies are spinal curvature and myopia.

The dignity of myopia exudes from the timbers of its long, quaint club-house.

It is, at the very least, as difficult to become a member of myopia as of the Royal and Ancient.

myopia, I am told, will use the black ball with joy when there is a candidate at the doors.

Word Value for myopia
Scrable

13

Words with friends

14

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