Synonyms:
short, shortsighted, unforesightful, myopic
Meaning: lacking foresight or scope; "a short view of the problem"; "shortsighted policies"; "shortsighted critics derided the plan"; "myopic thinking"
Usage examples
Other versions are either caricatures, or exaggerations, or misunderstandings, or shortsighted and surface readings.
There was but slender hope that the dissenters, unbroken and acting as one man, would be able to obtain from the legislature full admission to civil privileges; and all hope of obtaining such admission must be relinquished if Nottingham should, by the help of some wellmeaning but shortsighted friends of religious liberty, be enabled to accomplish his design.