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sharp-eyed

sharp-eyed adjective: having acute vision; having good eyesight.

Adjective

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

  1. Having acute vision; having good eyesight.
  2. Attentive, given to noticing things, aware.
    • The sharp-eyed detective noticed things the ordinary patrolman missed.
    • Only one mis-step! What is it? “Why, I only gave way to a little ill-temper,” but see the result! The children observed it. Children are sharp-eyed. They are close watchers. They are quick to mark the mis-step, and they have tenacious memories.1878 February 6, “ONE MIS-STEP.”, in The Messenger, volume XLVII, number 6 (2262), sourced from Methodist Recorder, →OCLC, page 2, column 2

sharp-eyed meaning in Tamil and Malayalam

sharp-eyed in Tamil

கூரிய பார்வையுள்ள

sharp-eyed in Malayalam

perceptive, observant, eagle-eyed
സൂക്ഷ്മദൃഷ്ടിയുള്ള, സൂക്ഷ്മനിരീക്ഷണ ശക്തിയുള്ള, കുശാഗ്രബുദ്ധിയായ, ഉൾക്കാഴ്ചയുള്ള, ശ്രദ്ധയോടിരിക്കുന്ന, എല്ലായിടത്തും കണ്ണെത്തുന്ന

Forms of sharp-eyed

comparativemore sharp-eyed
superlativemost sharp-eyed

Questions about sharp-eyed

What does sharp-eyed mean?
Sharp-eyed means having acute vision; having good eyesight.
What is sharp-eyed in Tamil?
Sharp-eyed in Tamil is கூரிய பார்வையுள்ள. See Sharp-eyed meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is sharp-eyed?
Sharp-eyed is an adjective.

Words near sharp-eyed in the dictionary

  1. sharp-and-a-half
  2. sharp-beaked ground finch
  3. sharp-cornered
  4. sharp-edged
  5. sharp-elbowed
  6. sharp-eyed
  7. sharp-long
  8. sharp-nosed
  9. sharp-pointed
  10. sharp-set
  11. sharp-sharp

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