1. shortsighted - Adjective
2. shortsighted - Adjective Satellite
Not able to see far; nearsighted; myopic. See Myopic, and Myopia.
Fig.: Not able to look far into futurity; unable to understand things deep; of limited intellect.
Having little regard for the future; heedless.
Source: Webster's dictionaryNeutrality has increasingly become obsolete and, except under very exceptional circumstances, it is an immoral and shortsighted conception. John Foster Dulles
Of late, attempts have been made in the USA - at a high level and in a rather cynical form - to play the "Chinese card" against the USSR. This is a shortsighted and dangerous policy. Leonid Brezhnev
The biggest disappointment has been seeing the number of people in this business with very shortsighted views. Greg Ginn
The other boys at Yale came from wealthy families, and none of them were investing outside the United States, and I thought, 'That is very egotistical. Why be so shortsighted or near-sighted as to focus only on America? Shouldn't you be more open-minded? John Templeton
Like all power seekers, Pae was amazingly shortsighted. There was a trivial, abortive quality to his mind, it lacked depth, affect, imagination. It was, in fact, a primitive instrument. Ursula K. Le Guin
All I'm saying is that it's shortsighted to blame TV. It's simply another symptom. TV didn't invent our aesthetic childishness here any more than the Manhattan Project invented aggression. David Foster Wallace