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blackest-eyed

blackest-eyed is the superlative 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 blackest-eyed

What is blackest-eyed the superlative form of?
Blackest-eyed is the superlative form of black-eyed.

Words near blackest-eyed in the dictionary

  1. Blackerby
  2. Blackerbys
  3. blackers
  4. blackest
  5. blackest Africa
  6. blackest-eyed
  7. blackest-haired
  8. blacketeer
  9. blacketeering
  10. blacketeers
  11. Blacketer

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