different between sighted vs nighted

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sa?t?d/

Verb

sighted

1. simple past tense and past participle of sight

Adjective

sighted (not comparable)

1. Having vision, not blind.

   Blind and partially sighted people.

2. (in combination) Having a particular kind of sight.

Translations

Derived terms

• farsighted
• nearsighted
• sharpsighted
• shortsighted

Anagrams

• desight

English

Etymology 1

night (“noun sense”) +? -ed

Adjective

nighted (comparative more nighted, superlative most nighted)

1. Dark; clouded
   • 1601, William Shakespeare, Hamlet Act I, Scene II:

     Queen Gertrude: Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted colour off.

   • 1931, H. P. Lovecraft, The Whisperer in Darkness, chapter 5:

     To shake off the maddening and wearying limitations of time and space and natural law—to be linked with the vast outside—to come close to the nighted and abysmal secrets of the infinite and the ultimate—surely such a thing was worth the risk of one’s life, soul, and sanity!

2. Overtaken by night; belated

Etymology 2

night (“verb sense”) +? -ed

Verb

nighted

1. simple past tense and past participle of night

Anagrams

• thinged