'Squinting' definitions:
Definition of 'squinting'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Having eyes half closed in order to see better; "squinched eyes" [syn: squinched, squinting]
Definition of 'Squinting'
From: GCIDE
- Squint \Squint\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Squinted; p. pr. & vb. n. Squinting.]
- 1. To see or look obliquely, asquint, or awry, or with a furtive glance. [1913 Webster]
- Some can squint when they will. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Med.) To have the axes of the eyes not coincident; to be cross-eyed. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To deviate from a true line; to run obliquely. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To have an indirect bearing, reference, or implication; to have an allusion to, or inclination towards, something.
- Yet if the following sentence means anything, it is a squinting toward hypnotism. --The Forum. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
- 5. To look with the eyes partly closed. [PJC]
Definition of 'Squinting'
From: GCIDE
- Squinting \Squint"ing\ (skw[i^]nt"[i^]ng), a. & n. from Squint, v. -- {Squint"ing*ly}, adv. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'squinting'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- agee,
- agee-jawed,
- askance,
- askant,
- askew,
- askewgee,
- asquint,
- astigmatic,
- awry,
- blink-eyed,
- blinking,
- blinky,
- catawampous,
- catawamptious,
- cockeyed,
- crooked,
- farsighted,
- longsighted,
- mope-eyed,
- myopic,
- nearsighted,
- poor-sighted,
- presbyopic,
- shortsighted,
- skew,
- skew-jawed,
- skewed,
- slaunchways,
- squinch-eyed,
- squint-eyed,
- squinty,
- strabismal,
- strabismic,
- wamper-jawed,
- winking,
- wry,
- yaw-ways