eyed
/aɪd/
eyed adjective: having eyes. Also the simple past and past participle of eye.
Adjective
eyed (not comparable)
- Having eyes.
- The familiar hatchery practice of agitating the eggs after they are eyed, called shocking or addling, ruptures the yolk membranes of the ever-tender sterile eggs. The result is a precipitation of the globulin and a whitening of the egg.1980, Earl Leitritz with Robert C[onklin] Lewis, Trout and Salmon Culture (Hatchery Methods) [California Fish Bulletin; 164], Oakland, Calif.: University of California Division of Agriculture and...
- Having eye-like spots.
- The back of the beetle was eyed to make it appear to be a snake to a predator.
- Having the specified kind or number of eyes.
- What mean you, sir, / To give them this discomfort? Look, they weep; / And I, an ass, am onion-eyed: for shame, / Transform us not to women.c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard...
- Unseen descending weigh my light wings upon balmy flowers, / And court the fair eyed dew to take me to her shining tent.1789, William Blake, The Book of Thel, II, lines 55-6
Also used as
eyed is also the simple past and past participle of eye.
Examples of eyed in a sentence
- Gray and blue-eyed parents will tend to have either gray-eyed children only or an equal number of gray- and of blue-eyed children according as the gray-eyed parent is homozygous or heterozygous.1901 November 7, Gertrude C. Davenport and Charles C. Davenport, “Heredity of Eye-color in Man”, in Science, New Series, MacMillan, Volume...
- Three victims in chains—and one of them, the little servant, the sad-eyed angel.1960, Elie Wiesel, translated by Stella Rodway, Night, New York: Bantam, published 1986, page 61:
Origin of eyed
From Middle English eyed, eied, iȝed, y-yȝed, equivalent to eye + -ed.
Words formed from eyed
- archipelago big-eyed treefrog
- bare-eyed cockatoo
- big-eyed tree frog
- bird-eyed
- black-eyed bean
- black-eyed pea
- black-eyed Susan
- black eyed susan
- bleary-eyed
- blue-eyed boy
- blue-eyed cormorant
- blue-eyed grass
- blue-eyed Mary
- blue-eyed shag
- blue-eyed soul
- bright-eyed
- bright eyed and bushy tailed
- bright-eyed and bushy-tailed
- brown-eyed soul
- brown-eyed Susan
- bug-eyed monster
- dark-eyed junco
- dead-eyed
- deepwater big-eyed worm eel
- dewy-eyed
- eyed ladybug
- eyedness
- fire-eyed diucon
- four-eyed fish
- goggle-eyed plover
- green big-eyed tree frog
- green-eyed monster
- Mission golden-eyed treefrog
- one eyed jack
- one-eyed jack
- one-eyed king
- one-eyed monster
- one-eyed snake
- one-eyed trouser snake
- pearly-eyed thrasher
- side-eyed
- stalk-eyed fly
- steely-eyed missile man
- two-eyed jack
- two-eyed steak
- uneyed
- white-eyed attila
- white-eyed gull
- yellow-eyed babbler
- yellow-eyed grass
- yellow-eyed penguin
Phrases with eyed
Words that rhyme with eyed
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- provide
- tied
- fried
- glide
- hide
- inside
- bide
- decide
- offside
- -side
- collide
- confide
- flipside
- set aside
- stride
- subside
- aside
- beride
- beside
- bestride
- chide
- coincide
- cyanide
- dried
- elide
- gride
- preside
- reside
- Ryde
- allied
- applied
- astride
- betide
- bride
- deride
- dyed
- guyed
- I'd
- imide
- incide
- pied
- right side
- said
- snide
- statewide
- tried
- vide
- allide
Questions about eyed
- What does eyed mean?
- Eyed means having eyes.
- How do you use eyed in a sentence?
- Gray and blue-eyed parents will tend to have either gray-eyed children only or an equal number of gray- and of blue-eyed children according as the gray-eyed parent is homozygous or heterozygous.
- What part of speech is eyed?
- Eyed is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce eyed?
- Eyed is pronounced /aɪd/.
Words near eyed in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: eyed (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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