Synonyms for sighted
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : sahy-tid |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈsaɪ tɪd |
Définition of sighted
Origin :- Old English sihð, gesiht, gesihð "thing seen; faculty of sight; aspect; vision; apparition," from Proto-Germanic *sekh(w)- (cf. Danish sigte, Swedish sigt, Middle Dutch sicht, Dutch zicht, Old High German siht, German Sicht, Gesicht), stem that also yielded Old English seon (see see (v.)), with noun suffix -th (2), later -t.
- Verily, truth is sight. Therefore if two people should come disputing, saying, 'I have seen,' 'I have heard,' we should trust the one who says 'I have seen.' [Brhadaranyaka Upanishad 5.14.4]
- Meaning "perception or apprehension by means of the eyes" is from early 13c. Meaning "device on a firearm to assist in aiming" is from 1580s. A "show" of something, hence, colloquially, "a great many; a lot" (late 14c.). Sight for sore eyes "welcome visitor" is attested from 1738; sight unseen "without previous inspection" is from 1892. Sight gag first attested 1944. Middle English had sighty (late 14c.) "visible, conspicuous; bright, shining; attractive, handsome;" c.1400 as "keen-sighted;" mid-15c. as "discerning" (cf. German sichtig "visible").
- adj seen
- We sighted the range and hill seen by my brother, and reached it at sundown.
- Extract from : « Explorations in Australia » by John Forrest
- In a minute his excited yapping; told that he had sighted his game and was in full chase.
- Extract from : « Johnny Bear » by E. T. Seton
- The submersible was sighted on July 1, 1915, by a French aeroplane.
- Extract from : « The Story of the Great War, Volume III (of VIII) » by Various
- Finally, only a lifetime or two after he hoped to see it, he sighted the ship again.
- Extract from : « Satellite System » by Horace Brown Fyfe
- Shortly after this he sighted a grove with a thick undergrowth.
- Extract from : « A Nest of Spies » by Pierre Souvestre
- He had insisted that morning that the uhlans that they sighted were some of Bazaine's troops.
- Extract from : « The Downfall » by Emile Zola
- At nightfall Coqueville sighted a ship in distress driven by the wind.
- Extract from : « The Fte At Coqueville » by Emile Zola
- Where Madame Butterfly hears that Pinkerton's ship has been sighted.
- Extract from : « The Education of Eric Lane » by Stephen McKenna
- The foremost animals had been charging a sighted human enemy.
- Extract from : « Pariah Planet » by Murray Leinster
- All days, Christmas or any other, are alike to Sol when there's a dollar to be sighted with a spyglass.
- Extract from : « Thankful's Inheritance » by Joseph C. Lincoln
Words or expressions associated with your search
- acute sight
- bombsight
- catch sight of
- clear-sighted
- eyesight
- far sighted
- far-sighted
- farsighted
- first sight
- foresight
- foresighted
- get in one's sights
- get out of my sight
- gunsight
- half sighted
- halfsighted
- having foresight
- hindsight
- hindsight critic
- in plain sight
- in sight
- in sighted
- in sights
- insight
- insighted
- insightful
- keep in sight
- keep sight
- keeps sight
- near sighted
- near-sighted
- nearsighted
- no end in sight
- out-of-sight
- out of sight
- oversight
- painful sight
- second sight
- sharp sight
- shortsighted
- shortsightedness
- sigh
- sight
- sighted
- sighting
- sightly
- sightsee
- sightseer
- sorry sight
- stay out of sight
- take in the sights
- takes sights
- telescopic sight
- unsightly
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