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saucer-eyed

saucer-eyed adjective: having round, wide-open eyes, naturally or from an expression of fear, astonishment, etc.

Adjective

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

  1. Having round, wide-open eyes, naturally or from an expression of fear, astonishment, etc.
    • The village children gaped saucer-eyed at the newcomers.2009, Philip Reeve, No Such Thing As Dragons, Scholastic, published 2010, →ISBN, page 36
    • Barlow[…] had just spent the Summer of Love in San Francisco. Having seen waves of saucer-eyed youth wash up in the Haight, and gotten fairly dilated himself, he believed that civilization was “headed over the falls.”2018 June 14, Chris Jennings, “‘Mother American Night’ Review: The Opening of a Western Mind”, in Wall Street Journal, →ISSN

Synonyms of saucer-eyed

Forms of saucer-eyed

comparativemore saucer-eyed
superlativemost saucer-eyed

Questions about saucer-eyed

What does saucer-eyed mean?
Saucer-eyed means having round, wide-open eyes, naturally or from an expression of fear, astonishment, etc.
What part of speech is saucer-eyed?
Saucer-eyed is an adjective.

Words near saucer-eyed in the dictionary

  1. saucer jelly
  2. saucer pass
  3. saucer passes
  4. saucer peach
  5. saucer peaches
  6. saucer-eyed
  7. saucer-leaf
  8. saucercraft
  9. saucered
  10. saucerer
  11. saucerers

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