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heavy-lidded

heavy-lidded adjective: having almost closed eyes.

Adjective

heavy-lidded (comparative more heavy-lidded, superlative most heavy-lidded)

  1. Having almost closed eyes.
    • The wide mouth was folded tight together, the heavy-lidded eyes were firmly shut as though she defied the world to disturb her rest.2007, John Stephen Strange, The Chinese Jar Mystery
  2. Having overhanging eaves that cast shadows upon its (perhaps recessed or small) windows?
    • On one end was West End Avenue, that long parade of heavy-lidded buildings from whose lobbies emerged old European ladies and gentleman in elegant clothes, peering up and down the avenue as though they had somewhere to go.2001, Thomas Beller, The Sleep-Over Artist, page 34
    • […] are many of them, it looks less Norwegian or Arts and Crafts-y than ancient and Japanese, the sort of heavy-lidded building that Akira Kurosawa would have cast in one of his sweeping epics […]2006, Arthur J. Magida, Opening the Doors of Wonder: Reflections on Religious Rites ..., page 202

Forms of heavy-lidded

comparativemore heavy-lidded
superlativemost heavy-lidded

Questions about heavy-lidded

What does heavy-lidded mean?
Heavy-lidded means having almost closed eyes.
What part of speech is heavy-lidded?
Heavy-lidded is an adjective.

Words near heavy-lidded in the dictionary

  1. heavy-hearted
  2. heavy-heartedly
  3. heavy-heartedness
  4. heavy-hitter
  5. heavy-hitters
  6. heavy-lidded
  7. heavy-lifting
  8. heavy-metal umlaut
  9. heavy-metal umlauts
  10. heavy-set
  11. heavy-tailed

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