Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb sight

2 senses of sight

Sense 1
spy, sight -- (catch sight of; to perceive with the eyes; "he caught sight of the king's men coming over the ridge")
       => perceive, comprehend -- (to become aware of through the senses; "I could perceive the ship coming over the horizon")

Sense 2
sight -- (take aim by looking through the sights of a gun (or other device))
       => aim, take, train, take aim, direct -- (point or cause to go (blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment) towards; "Please don't aim at your little brother!"; "He trained his gun on the burglar"; "Don't train your camera on the women"; "Take a swipe at one's opponent")

Antonyms of adj sighted

1 sense of sighted

Sense 1
sighted (vs. blind) -- (able to see)

blind (vs. sighted), unsighted -- (unable to see; "a person is blind to the extent that he must devise alternative techniques to do efficiently those things he would do with sight if he had normal vision"--Kenneth Jernigan)
        => blinded -- (deprived of sight)
        => blindfold, blindfolded -- (wearing a blindfold)
        => color-blind, colour-blind -- (unable to distinguish one or more chromatic colors)
        => dazzled -- (having vision overcome temporarily by or as if by intense light; "she shut her dazzled eyes against the sun's brilliance")
        => deuteranopic, green-blind -- (inability to see the color green or to distinguish green and purplish-red)
        => dim-sighted, near-blind, purblind, sand-blind, visually impaired, visually challenged -- (having greatly reduced vision)
        => eyeless, sightless, unseeing -- (lacking sight; "blind as an eyeless beggar")
        => protanopic, red-blind -- (inability to see the color red or to distinguish red and bluish-green)
        => snow-blind, snow-blinded -- (temporarily blinded by exposure to light reflected from snow or ice)
        => stone-blind -- (completely blind)
        => tritanopic, blue-blind -- (inability to see the color blue or to distinguish the colors blue and yellow)

Similarity of adj sighted

1 sense of sighted

Sense 1
sighted (vs. blind) -- (able to see)
       => argus-eyed, hawk-eyed, keen-sighted, lynx-eyed, quick-sighted, sharp-eyed, sharp-sighted -- (having very keen vision; "quick-sighted as a cat")
       => clear-sighted -- (having sharp clear vision)
       => seeing -- (having vision, not blind)

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