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undereye

undereye adjective: under the eye.

Adjective

undereye (not comparable)

  1. Under the eye.
    • Lips that have thinned over time may cause a person to appear irritable or tense, a naturally elevated brow may suggest judgment or skepticism, and undereye shadows can make a person appear weary and burdened.2007 August 2, Laurel Naversen Geraghty, “I Am Not a Crab: When Wrinkles Lie”, in New York Times

Noun

undereye (plural undereyes)

  1. The area of skin immediately under the eye.
    • In some vague corner of his mind, he remembered her forgetfulness, the weary smudges of blue that bruised her undereyes when the sky was still pale with white light from the sun […]2013, Lindsay Evelyn Hamilton, Lily Whites of Steel, page 374

Forms of undereye

Adjective
alternative formunder-eye
Noun
pluralundereyes

Origin of undereye

From under + eye.

Words formed from undereye

Phrases with undereye

Questions about undereye

What does undereye mean?
Undereye means under the eye.
What part of speech is undereye?
Undereye can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near undereye in the dictionary

  1. underextrapolations
  2. underextrude
  3. underextruded
  4. underextrudes
  5. underextruding
  6. undereye
  7. undereye bag
  8. undereye bags
  9. undereyes
  10. underface
  11. underfaced

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