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hawk-eyed

hawk-eyed adjective: having very good eyesight.

Adjective

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

  1. (idiomatic) Having very good eyesight.
    • Bob was wheeling the baby up and down, Mabel watching him, hawk-eyed, as though she suspected him of harboring intentions of tipping the cab over.1924, Bess Streeter Aldrich, chapter 3, in Mother Mason
    • Hawk-eyed bus-tour agents mounting watch at the intersections, flaunting printed signs tucked in the bands of their visored caps to advertise their business, claim they can spot the hickster nine times out of ten.1960, William Garland Rogers, Mildred Weston, Carnival crossroads: the story of Times Square

hawk-eyed meaning in Tamil and Malayalam

hawk-eyed in Tamil

கழுகுக் கண் படைத்த, கூரிய கண் பார்வை உடைய

hawk-eyed in Malayalam

alert, vigilant, observant
കഴുകൻകണ്ണുകളുള്ള, സൂക്ഷ്മദൃഷ്ടിയുള്ള, തീക്ഷ്ണദൃഷ്ടിയുള്ള, ഗൃദ്ധ്റദൃഷ്ടിയായ, ജാഗ്രതയുള്ള, ഉണർച്ചയുള്ള

Synonyms of hawk-eyed

Forms of hawk-eyed

comparativemore hawk-eyed
superlativemost hawk-eyed

Questions about hawk-eyed

What does hawk-eyed mean?
Hawk-eyed means having very good eyesight.
What is hawk-eyed in Tamil?
Hawk-eyed in Tamil is கழுகுக் கண் படைத்த, கூரிய கண் பார்வை உடைய. See Hawk-eyed meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is hawk-eyed?
Hawk-eyed is an adjective.

Words near hawk-eyed in the dictionary

  1. hawk-cuckoo
  2. hawk-cuckoos
  3. hawk-eagle
  4. hawk-eagles
  5. hawk-eye
  6. hawk-eyed
  7. hawk-eyes
  8. hawk-faced
  9. hawk-fly
  10. hawk-headed parrot
  11. hawk-headed parrots

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hawk-eyed (page history and authors); hawk-eyed (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); hawk-eyed (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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