red-eyed
red-eyed adjective: having the eyelids reddened, e.g. by tears or lack of sleep. Also the simple past and past participle of red-eye.
Adjective
red-eyed (comparative more red-eyed, superlative most red-eyed)
- Having the eyelids reddened, e.g. by tears or lack of sleep.
- They were very red-eyed after playing video-games for 72 hours straight.
- She was frankly disappointed. For some reason she had expected to discover a burglar of one or another accepted type—either a dashing cracksman in full-blown evening dress, lithe, polished, pantherish, or a common yegg, a red-eyed, unshaven, burly brute in the rags and tatters of a tramp.1914 November, Louis Joseph Vance, “An Outsider […]”, in Munsey’s Magazine, volume LIII, number II, New York, N.Y.: The Frank A[ndrew] Munsey Company, […], published 1915, →OCLC, chapter III...
- Of a person, having the pupils appearing in a red color due to a reflection off the blood vessels in the eye.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see red, eyed.
Also used as
red-eyed is also the simple past and past participle of red-eye.
Forms of red-eyed
| comparative | more red-eyed |
|---|---|
| superlative | most red-eyed |
Words formed from red-eyed
- red-eyed bream
- red-eyed coqui
- red-eyed dove
- red-eyed frog
- red-eyed pochard
- red-eyed puffback
- red-eyed stream frog
- red-eyed tree frog
- red-eyed vireo
Questions about red-eyed
- What does red-eyed mean?
- Red-eyed means having the eyelids reddened, e.g. by tears or lack of sleep.
- What part of speech is red-eyed?
- Red-eyed is an adjective.
Words near red-eyed in the dictionary
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