wide-eyed
wide-eyed adjective: astonished or surprised.
Adjective
wide-eyed (comparative more wide-eyed, superlative most wide-eyed)
- Astonished or surprised.
- The magician’s trick left the audience wide-eyed.
- Naive; innocent; like a baby.
- Country life doesn’t protect you from real life. A rural childhood may leave you wide-eyed a bit longer about some things, but it doesn’t confer the insulating innocence that some parents seem to hope.2014 December 20, Rebecca Ley, “City versus country childhoods”, in The Guardian
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see wide, eye, -ed.
- She was like her mother: tiny, curly-haired, and wide-eyed.
- Cartoonish, wide-eyed infants cling to their mothers or play together low to the ground.2017, Jennifer S. Holland, For These Monkeys, It’s a Fight for Survival., National Geographic (March 2017)http://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/03/macaques-monkeys-indonesia-endangered-pet-t...
- Synonyms:
- moon-eyed, owly-eyed, pie-eyed, saucer-eyed, goggle-eyed
wide-eyed meaning in Malayalam and Kannada
wide-eyed in Malayalam
- goggle-eyed, staring in amazement, open-mouthed
- കണ്ണുമിഴിച്ചിരിക്കുന്ന, അത്ഭുതം കൊണ്ടു കണ്ണുമിഴിച്ചിരിക്കുന്ന, നിർന്നിമേഷ, അതിശയത്താൽ മിഴിച്ചുനോക്കിയിരിക്കുന്ന, തുറിച്ചുനോക്കുന്ന, തുറികണ്ണുകളോടെയിരിക്കുന്ന
- naive, innocent, impressionable
- നിഷ്കളങ്കമായ, ശുദ്ധനായ, തീരെ നിഷ്ക്കളങ്കമായ, നിർദ്ദോഷമായ, പരിഹാസ്യമാംവണ്ണം ആർജ്ജവമുള്ള, ശുദ്ധഗതിയുള്ള
wide-eyed in Kannada
- ಅಗಲವಾಗಿ ಕಣ್ಣು ತೆರೆದ, ಕಣ್ಣಗಲಿಸಿದ, ಸಮ್ಮತಿಸುವ, ಪ್ರಶಂಸಿಸುವ, ಮೆಚ್ಚುಗೆ ಸೂಚಿಸುವ
Synonyms of wide-eyed
Forms of wide-eyed
| comparative | more wide-eyed |
|---|---|
| superlative | most wide-eyed |
Questions about wide-eyed
- What does wide-eyed mean?
- Wide-eyed means astonished or surprised.
- What is wide-eyed in Malayalam?
- Wide-eyed in Malayalam is കണ്ണുമിഴിച്ചിരിക്കുന്ന, അത്ഭുതം കൊണ്ടു കണ്ണുമിഴിച്ചിരിക്കുന്ന, നിർന്നിമേഷ. See Wide-eyed meaning in Malayalam.
- What part of speech is wide-eyed?
- Wide-eyed is an adjective.
Words near wide-eyed in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: wide-eyed (page history and authors); wide-eyed (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); wide-eyed (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). 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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