In the US, most people do say "near-sighted", but in the UK "short-sighted" is common. For example, on the NHS website: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/Short-sigh

In the US, most people do say "near-sighted", but in the UK "short-sighted" is common. For example, on the NHS website: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/Short-sightedness/ https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/Short-sightedness/ The reason you can use "short-sighted" as an adjective to suggest that someone isn't thinking about the future is by analogy to this condition. The same thing is true for "myopic".