eyeful
eyeful noun: a full or complete view; a good look.
Noun
eyeful (plural eyefuls or eyesful)
- A full or complete view; a good look.
- Get an eyeful of this!
- A remarkable sight or a very attractive person.
- 'Dat you, Robber? Lissen, Da Big Man muss be n'town. Whaddya mean yuh jes talked wit him 'n New York? Ah jes seen his gal 'n a Clearwater cab, one of da Stassen Company's. Headin' over da Causeway. Sho Ahm sartin. Cross ma heart. Couldn mistake dat eyeful.'1954, Ian Fleming, “The Everglades”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 124
- Enough material to fill one's eye.
- I could barely see through two eyefuls of dust.
- an eyeful of tears
- A brief period of sleep; forty winks.
- We pulled our heavy overcoats tightly around us, shivering, and put our heads down as the din of fighting stopped for a while to grab an eyeful of sleep.2021, Will Fey, Armor Battles of the Waffen-SS: 1943–45, page 272
Adjective
eyeful (comparative more eyeful, superlative most eyeful)
- Filling or attractive to the eye; visible; remarkable.
- With this, he hung them up aloft, upon a tamrick bough, As eyeful trophies [...]2000, Homer, Iliad and the Odyssey
eyeful meaning in Tamil and Malayalam
eyeful in Tamil
- கண்ணார
eyeful in Malayalam
- look, peep, peek
- നോട്ടം, കാഴ്ച, ദർശനം, അവലോകനം, കടാക്ഷം, ദൃഗ്ഭക്തി
- beautiful sight, vision, picture
- മോഹനദൃശ്യം, സുന്ദരദൃശ്യം, സുന്ദരക്കാഴ്ച, കണ്ണിന് ഇമ്പം നല്കുന്ന കാഴ്ച, പ്രിയദർശനം, കാഴ്ച
Forms of eyeful
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | eyefuls |
| plural | eyesful |
| alternative form | eye-full |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more eyeful |
| superlative | most eyeful |
Origin of eyeful
From eye + -ful.
Questions about eyeful
- What does eyeful mean?
- Eyeful means a full or complete view; a good look.
- What is eyeful in Tamil?
- Eyeful in Tamil is கண்ணார. See Eyeful meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is eyeful?
- Eyeful can be a noun or an adjective.
- What is the plural of eyeful?
- The plural of eyeful is eyefuls.
Words near eyeful in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: eyeful (page history and authors); eyeful (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); eyeful (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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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