big-eyed

Adjective

big-eyed (comparative more big-eyed or bigger-eyed, superlative most big-eyed or biggest-eyed)

1. Having large eyes.
   • It doesn’t matter to the little children if there aren’t as many baby farm animals as there were last year. They turn their attention to the few, more big-eyed than calves and just as playful as twin lambs.1943 April 4, Betty Fible Martin, “They’re All Behind the Plow […]”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC
   • His obsessive motif is a gnomish little figure — derived from Picasso out of Etruscan and more archaic art — of a man whose big-eyed, helmet-shaped head rides his legs without benefit of torso.1984 October 26, Grace Glueck, “Art: Antes ‘Votives’ at Guggenheim”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 May 2015