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bright-eyed

bright-eyed adjective: eager and alert.

Adjective

bright-eyed (comparative more bright-eyed, superlative most bright-eyed)

  1. eager and alert

Forms of bright-eyed

comparativemore bright-eyed
superlativemost bright-eyed

Origin of bright-eyed

From Middle English bryht yhed, equivalent to bright + eyed.

Words formed from bright-eyed

Questions about bright-eyed

What does bright-eyed mean?
Bright-eyed means eager and alert.
What part of speech is bright-eyed?
Bright-eyed is an adjective.

Words near bright-eyed in the dictionary

  1. Bright Week
  2. bright young people
  3. bright young thing
  4. bright young things
  5. Bright's disease
  6. bright-eyed
  7. bright-eyed and bushy-tailed
  8. bright-line rule
  9. bright-line rules
  10. bright-rumped attila
  11. bright-rumped attilas

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