lynx-eyed
English
Adjective
lynx-eyed (comparative more lynx-eyed, superlative most lynx-eyed)
- Possessing particularly good vision.
- 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1965, →OCLC, page 131:
- Hetty and Mrs. Piper watched them with a lynx-eyed understanding[.]
- 1940 May, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 264:
- It was hardly to be expected that the maximum speed of 100 m.p.h. claimed for the Great Western locomotive Builth Castle, in my February article would escape the lynx-eyed scrutiny of readers.
Synonyms
Translations
eagle-eyed — see eagle-eyed
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