presbyopic

comparative more presbyopic · superlative most presbyopic

1. Affected by or pertaining to presbyopia.First known use 19th c.

   the Moms, bent way down to me, hand reaching, her lowering face with its presbyopic squint, suddenly stopped, froze, beginning to I.D. what it was I held out […]

   1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 11

plural presbyopics

1. A person who has presbyopia.

   These experiments prove that some alteration has taken place in the eye equivalent to a lengthening of the eye, or a shortening of the principal focus, which enables presbyopics to read without glasses.

   2014, Walter J. Kilner, The Human Atmosphere