Meanings
- not comparablePartly or wholly blind.
1 more example
A pilot study conducted in 2023 by the department of obstetrics and gynecology at the Erlangen University Hospital in Germany involved 104 patients and concluded that clinical breast examinations by MTEs who were visually impaired were as accurate in identifying potentially cancerous tumors as doctors trained in this procedure.
2024 September 8, Kamala Thiagarajan, “Women who are blind play a critical role in identifying possible breast cancers”, in NPRSynonyms: vision impaired, VI, sight impaired
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivePartly or wholly blind.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectivehaving greatly reduced vision
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Ancient Greek ἀμβλυωπός, τυφλός
- ἀμβλυωπός (ambluōpós)suffering of reduced vision
- τυφλός (tuphlós)suffering of reduced vision
Danish svagtseende, blind
- svagtseendesuffering of reduced vision
- blindsuffering of reduced vision
Dutch slechtziend
- slechtziendsuffering of reduced vision
Finnish näkövammainen
- näkövammainensuffering of reduced vision
French malvoyant
- malvoyantsuffering of reduced vision
German sehbehindert
- sehbehindertsuffering of reduced vision
Hindi अंधा, दृष्टिहीन
- अंधा (andhā)suffering of reduced vision
- दृष्टिहीन (dŕṣṭihīn)suffering of reduced vision
- नेत्रहीन (netrahīn)suffering of reduced vision
Hungarian látássérült
- látássérültsuffering of reduced vision
Norwegian Bokmål svaksynt
- svaksyntsuffering of reduced vision
Polish niedowidzący, słabowidzący
- niedowidzącysuffering of reduced vision
- słabowidzącysuffering of reduced vision
Portuguese deficiente visual
- deficiente visualsuffering of reduced vision
Cite this entry
visually impaired. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/visually%20impaired
“visually impaired.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/visually%20impaired. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “visually impaired,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/visually%20impaired.
Source: visually impaired on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.