Meanings
alternative ophthalmick
- not comparablemedicineOf or pertaining to the eyes.
Eyedrops are an ophthalmic solution.
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The ophthalmic surgeon attends Tuesdays and Saturdays, at half-past one.
1853 September 17, “Metropolitan Hospitals & Medical Schools”, in The Lancet, volume 62, number 1568, →DOI, page 268In a clinic, a camera's lens probes the sensitive landscape of a human eye. McNally used a special ophthalmic camera to reveal the view a doctor would have during an eye exam.
2008, Leah Bendavid-Val, National Geographic: The Photographs, page 15 - not comparableVisionary, looking to the future.
To Dechen Wangmo, and all the fiercely dedicated ophthalmic staff of Bhutan, my gratitude for your hospitality and patience with a foreigner's curiosity about your customs.
2013, David Oliver Relin, Second Suns: Two Doctors and Their Amazing Quest to Restore Sight and Save Lives, →ISBN2 more examples
Yet I do not call to mind that I was ever in my earlier youth the subject of remark in our social family circle, but some large-handed person took some such ophthalmic steps to patronise me.
1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter X, in Great Expectations […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC, page 161If Jack Yeats has made this ophthalmic adjustment, and if W.B. never really was so foolish as to look things between the eyes (until the Revolution grimaced at him), have the realistic novelists of our time been wise in their insistence on ruthless close-ups?
2000, David Pierce, Irish Writing in the Twentieth Century: A Reader, →ISBN, page 516
Synonyms & antonyms
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Ancient Greekὀφθᾰλμῐκός“of or for the eyes”
- Latinophthalmicus
- Englishophthalmic
Borrowed from Latin ophthalmicus, from Ancient Greek ὀφθᾰλμῐκός (ophthălmĭkós, “of or for the eyes”), from ὀφθᾰλμός (ophthălmós, “eye”) + -ῐκός (-ĭkós, “-ic”, adjectival suffix).
More words from Latin, Ancient Greek
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Bulgarian очен
- очен (očen)of or pertaining to the eyes
Catalan oftàlmic
- oftàlmicof or pertaining to the eyes
Chinese Mandarin 眼的
- 眼的 (yǎn de)of or pertaining to the eyes
French ophtalmique
- ophtalmiqueof or pertaining to the eyes
Italian oftalmico
- oftalmicoof or pertaining to the eyes
Portuguese oftálmico
- oftálmicoof or pertaining to the eyes
Spanish oftálmico
- oftálmicoof or pertaining to the eyes
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with ophthalmic
Cite this entry
ophthalmic. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ophthalmic
“ophthalmic.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ophthalmic. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “ophthalmic,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ophthalmic.
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