quick-sighted

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quick-sighted - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Quick-sighted \Quick"-sight`ed\, a.
     Having quick sight or acute discernment; quick to see or to
     discern. --Locke.
     [1913 Webster] --Quick"-sight`ed*ness, n.
     [1913 Webster]

quick-sighted - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  quick-sighted
      adj 1: having very keen vision; "quick-sighted as a cat" [syn:
             argus-eyed, hawk-eyed, keen-sighted, lynx-eyed,
             quick-sighted, sharp-eyed, sharp-sighted]
      2: keenly perceptive or alert; "quick-sighted into the faults of
         the time"- Leonard Bacon [syn: quick-sighted, sharp-   sighted
         , sharp-eyed]