wide-eyed

[wahyd-ahyd]

adjective

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

wide-eyed

adjective

1. innocent or credulous

Word History and Origins

Origin of wide-eyed¹

First recorded in 1850–55

Example Sentences

Towering over the locals, the players drew giggles and wide-eyed stares.

From Los Angeles Times

Audiences, she said, have come to her shows "wide-eyed" and with "open hearts".

From BBC

Now his son watched in wide-eyed disbelief as agents quickly shuffled him to a service elevator — and he was gone.

From Los Angeles Times

Olson plays these moments of realization with a wide-eyed innocence, allowing DJ’s inner child to temporarily crack the prickly walls she’s built to protect herself from her mother’s constant failure to nurture and support her.

From Salon

Captain of the wide-eyed Victorians of 1888, Seddon led the first rugby team of its kind to leave these shores and head south, not yet as the British and Irish Lions, but precursors and pioneers.

From BBC

Related Words

• clean 
• decent 
• fresh 
• good 
• honest 
• true