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blacker-eyed

blacker-eyed is the comparative form of black-eyed.

Meaning of black-eyed

Adjective

black-eyed (comparative more black-eyed or blacker-eyed, superlative most black-eyed or blackest-eyed)

  1. Having a black eye.
  2. Having the iris of a black color.
    • This morning Keegan looks blacker-haired and blacker-eyed than ever before. The cold has plucked extra color into his cheeks and nose, and his outsized ears are flower-pot red.1966, Paul West, chapter 16, in Alley Jaggers, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Row, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 212
  3. as a part of a phrase
    • black-eyed pea

Questions about blacker-eyed

What is blacker-eyed the comparative form of?
Blacker-eyed is the comparative form of black-eyed.

Words near blacker-eyed in the dictionary

  1. blackenized
  2. blackenizes
  3. blackenizing
  4. blackens
  5. blacker
  6. blacker-eyed
  7. blacker-haired
  8. Blackerby
  9. Blackerbys
  10. blackers
  11. blackest

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