Myopic means short-sighted, in vision or in planning. A myopic policy, myopic thinking, myopic since childhood.
The medical sense is exact, since a myopic eye focuses in front of the retina and sees near things clearly. The figurative use is the commoner and accuses somebody of seeing only what is immediately in front of them.
1adjectivemyopicShort-sighted, in vision or in planning.
“The myopic old man held the newspaper right up to his nose.”
myopic is a quality.
From myopia + -ic.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA