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dark-eyed

dark-eyed adjective: having dark eyes.

Adjective

dark-eyed (comparative more dark-eyed or darker-eyed, superlative most dark-eyed or darkest-eyed)

  1. Having dark eyes.
    • The dark-haired, darker-eyed Fraulein sat more or less alone in her schoolroom, giving guttural orders that we all found very funny.1983, Elsa Lanchester, chapter 3, in Elsa Lanchester, Herself, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN, page 29
    • He was a Demon: the darkest-eyed, most dangerous type of Ashkind, historically the most violent and insidious and prone to political dissent, who had to be watched by the Department very carefully lest they rebel against the Government.2015, Helena Coggan, chapter 6, in The Catalyst, London: Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN, pages 70–71

Forms of dark-eyed

comparativemore dark-eyed
comparativedarker-eyed
superlativemost dark-eyed
superlativedarkest-eyed

Words formed from dark-eyed

Phrases with dark-eyed

Questions about dark-eyed

What does dark-eyed mean?
Dark-eyed means having dark eyes.
What part of speech is dark-eyed?
Dark-eyed is an adjective.

Words near dark-eyed in the dictionary

  1. dark world
  2. dark worlds
  3. dark-activity
  4. dark-adapted
  5. dark-blue snakeweed
  6. dark-eyed
  7. dark-eyed junco
  8. dark-eyed juncos
  9. dark-haired
  10. dark-hearted
  11. dark-horse

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