Short"sight`ed (?), a.
1.
Not able to see far; nearsighted; myopic. See Myopic, and Myopia.
2.
Fig.: Not able to look far into futurity; unable to understand things deep; of limited intellect.
3.
Having little regard for the future; heedless.
-- Short"sight`ed*ly, adv. -- Short"sight`ed*ness, n.
Cunning is a kind of shortsightedness.
Addison.
© Webster 1913.