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View synonyms for glassy-eyed

glassy-eyed

[ glas-ee-ahyd, glah-see- ]

adjective

  1. having a dull, dazed, or uncomprehending expression; staring fixedly.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of glassy-eyed1

First recorded in 1890–95
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Example Sentences

He sat there a moment, glassy-eyed, then rose with a trembling effort and groped aft to the cabin.

So the older ones have become glassy-eyed and seldom speak (winking is the star language), but the little ones still wonder.

I lay there and looked sort of glassy-eyed, as if I was awake, but kinda hypnotized, you know.

And just then Jane Hubbard came downstairs, shepherding before her a pale and glassy-eyed Bream.

I had a positive abhorrence for the painted, bedizened, dead-faced, glassy-eyed Egeria of Peter Ivanovitch.

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