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eyed

adj · verb · 5 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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Sound

Pronunciation

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/aɪd/
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homophone: I'd
rhymes with -aɪd
CMU ARPABET: AY1 D Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

adj

Meaning 1

Having eyes.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

adj

Meaning 2

Having eye-like spots.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable

Examples

The back of the beetle was eyed to make it appear to be a snake to a predator.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

adj

Meaning 3

Having the specified kind or number of eyes.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: in-compounds, not-comparable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

verb

Meaning 4

simple past and past participle of eye

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: form-of, participle, past

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

adjective

Meaning 5

having an eye or eyes or eyelike feature especially as specified; often used in combination

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

a peacock's eyed feathers
red-eyed

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: eyeless

History

Etymology

From Middle English eyed, eied, iȝed, y-yȝed, equivalent to eye + -ed.

Word forms

Inflections and variants

No separate word forms were provided.

Word family

Derived and related words

Derived: archipelago big-eyed treefrog, bare-eyed cockatoo, big-eyed tree frog, bird-eyed, black-eyed bean, black-eyed pea, black eyed susan, black-eyed Susan, bleary-eyed, blue-eyed boy, blue-eyed cormorant, blue-eyed grass, blue-eyed Mary, blue-eyed shag, blue-eyed soul, bright-eyed, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, bright eyed and bushy tailed, brown-eyed soul, brown-eyed Susan, bug-eyed monster, dark-eyed junco, dead-eyed, deepwater big-eyed worm eel, dewy-eyed, eyed ladybug, eyedness, fire-eyed diucon, four-eyed fish, goggle-eyed plover, green big-eyed tree frog, green-eyed monster, Mission golden-eyed treefrog, one eyed jack, one-eyed jack, one-eyed king, one-eyed monster, one-eyed snake, one-eyed trouser snake, pearly-eyed thrasher, side-eyed, stalk-eyed fly, steely-eyed missile man, two-eyed jack, two-eyed steak, uneyed, white-eyed attila, white-eyed gull, yellow-eyed babbler, yellow-eyed grass, yellow-eyed penguin

Related: none provided

Spelling and sound

Hyphenation and homophones

Homophones: I'd

Semantic map

Other relationships

Hyponyms: almond-eyed, Argus-eyed, banjo-eyed, beady-eyed, bedroom-eyed, black-eyed, blink-eyed, blue-eyed, boggle-eyed, boss-eyed, brown-eyed, buck-eyed, bug-eyed, cat-eyed, cleareyed, clear-eyed, cockeyed, cock-eyed, cold-eyed, coon-eyed, cow-eyed, cross-eyed, crossed-eyed, dark-eyed, dew-eyed, dewy-eyed, doe-eyed, double-eyed, dove-eyed, dry-eyed, eagle-eyed, falcon-eyed, fish-eyed, flint-eyed, flinty-eyed, fly-eyed, four-eyed, frog-eyed, full-eyed, gee-eyed, gimlet-eyed, glassy-eyed, goggle-eyed, golden-eyed, gooch-eyed, googly-eyed, gooseberry-eyed, gravy-eyed, green-eyed, grey-eyed, hawk-eyed, hazel-eyed, heavyeyed, hollow-eyed, inland snake-eyed skink, laughing-eyed, lynx-eyed, many-eyed, misty-eyed, mole-eyed, moon-eyed, mope-eyed, multieyed, odd-eyed, one-eyed, open-eyed, owly-eyed, oxeyed, ox-eyed, pie-eyed, pinch-eyed, pin-eyed, pink-eyed, pissy-eyed, pop-eyed, popeyed, pop eyed, redeyed, red-eyed, rosy-eyed, round-eyed, sad-eyed, saucer-eyed, sharp-eyed, shifty-eyed, single-eyed, slant-eyed, slit-eyed, sloe-eyed, square-eyed, squint-eyed, stalk-eyed, starry-eyed, steely-eyed, sunken-eyed, swivel-eyed, teary-eyed, thrum-eyed, twinkly-eyed, two-eyed, wall-eyed, weak-eyed, wheel-eyed, wide-eyed, wild-eyed

Sources

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