adj
Meaning 1
Astonished or surprised.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively
Examples
- The magician’s trick left the audience wide-eyed.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
wide-eyed
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adj
Meaning 2
Naive; innocent; like a baby.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 3
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see wide, eye, -ed.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- She was like her mother: tiny, curly-haired, and wide-eyed.
- 2017, Jennifer S. Holland, For These Monkeys, It’s a Fight for Survival., National Geographic (March 2017)http://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/03/macaques-monkeys-indonesia-endangered-pet-trade/ Cartoonish, wide-eyed infants cling to their mothers or play together low to the ground.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: moon-eyed, owly-eyed, pie-eyed, saucer-eyed, goggle-eyed
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 4
(used of eyes) fully open or extended
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- stared with wide eyes
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: wide
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 5
exhibiting childlike simplicity and credulity
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- childlike trust
- dewy-eyed innocence
- listened in round-eyed wonder
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: childlike, round-eyed, dewy-eyed, simple
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
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Across languages
Translations
7 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Finnish: silmät levällään — astonished or surprised
- French: les yeux ronds — astonished or surprised
- Irish: súil-leata — astonished or surprised
- Polish: zrobić wielkie oczy (literally make big eyes̠) — astonished or surprised
- Portuguese: de olhos arregalados — astonished or surprised
- Spanish: ojiplático — astonished or surprised
- Swedish: storögd — astonished or surprised