wide-eyed

[ wahyd-ahyd ]

/ ˈwaɪdˌaɪd /

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adjective

with the eyes open wide, as in amazement, innocence, or sleeplessness.

Nearby words

wide-angle glaucoma, wide-angle lens, wide-area network, wide-awake, wide-body, wide-eyed, wide-open, wide-ranging, wide-screen, wide-spreading, widebody

Origin of wide-eyed

First recorded in 1850–55

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019

Examples from the Web for wide-eyed

His co-captain, Derrik Rose, once detailed, in wide-eyed wonderment, a single meal Joa put away.
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When a 16-year-old takes on that wide-eyed, touched-for-the-very-first-time role, it all comes off as a tad more…juvenile.
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“I found the help I needed to be healthy,” says Mindi, a wide-eyed woman with a round face and a chatty affect.
One Breakdown Can Mean Losing Your Kid Forever|ProPublica|May 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The mug shots have gone viral: wide-eyed, scared-looking Megan Huntsman, 39.
The Psychology of Mothers Who Kill Their Children|Janelle Dumalaon|April 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Wide-eyed, he told me that I had to go look in the bathroom, there was a picture of Jason on the wall.
He Left Nirvana Because He Had Cooler Things to Do. Like Going to Iraq.|Jacob Siegel|April 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST
For Billy, pale, wide-eyed and laughless, was not in the order of things as they should be.
Joyce of the North Woods|Harriet T. Comstock
Shivering and wide-eyed, the boy crept to his bunk, where he fell asleep at last to the sound of screaming wind and lashing water.
The Black Buccaneer|Stephen W. Meader
Simon's scudiero, standing with their string of horses, stared at her wide-eyed.
The Saracen: The Holy War|Robert Shea
But Aunt Valeria's patience was sometimes sorely taxed by his wide-eyed attention to the story.
The Open Question|Elizabeth Robins
He was very fond of these round-cheeked, wide-eyed human things that clung about him and knew no evil of him.
Romola|George Eliot

British Dictionary definitions for wide-eyed

wide-eyed

adjective

innocent or credulous

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wide-eyed

adjective

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wide-eyed

adjective