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Definition 2024
wide-eyed
wide-eyed
English
Adjective
wide-eyed (comparative more wide-eyed, superlative most wide-eyed)
- Having large or wide-open eyes.
- She was like her mother: tiny, curly-haired, and wide-eyed.
- (by extension) Astonished or surprised.
- The magician's trick left the audience wide-eyed.
- 2014, Rebecca Ley, "City versus country childhoods", The Guardian, +201 December 2014:
- Country life doesn’t protect you from real life. A rural childhood may leave you wide-eyed a bit longer about some things, but it doesn’t confer the insulating innocence that some parents seem to hope.
Synonyms
- (having large or wide-open eyes): moon-eyed, owly-eyed, saucer-eyed