wide-eyed
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wide-eyed
adjective more wide-eyed · most wide-eyed
- Astonished or surprised. The magician’s trick left the audience wide-eyed.
- Naive; innocent; like a baby. 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.
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Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see wide, eye, -ed.
She was like her mother: tiny, curly-haired, and wide-eyed.
Similar: moon-eyed, owly-eyed, pie-eyed, saucer-eyed, goggle-eyed
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adj astonished or surprised
| Español | ojiplático |
|---|---|
| Português | de olhos arregalados |
| Français | les yeux ronds |
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