Library / English Dictionary

VISUALLY IMPAIRED PERSON

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who has inferior vision

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("visually impaired person" is a kind of...):

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "visually impaired person"):

aphakic (someone afflicted by aphakia; someone lacking the natural lenses of the eyes)

blind person (a person with a severe visual impairment)

hyperope (a person with hyperopia; a farsighted person)

myope (a person with myopia; a nearsighted person)

presbyope (a person with presbyopia; someone who is farsighted resulting from the progressive loss with aging of the elasticity of the crystalline lens)

Credits