wide-eyed Definition
wide·-eyed (-īd′)
adjective
- with the eyes opened widely, as because of surprise or fear
- naive or unsophisticated
wide-eyed Usage Examples
Preposition: at
everything: I filmed them all as they passed me, pushing their trolleys and gazing, wide-eyed at everything.
Modifies a noun
- innocence: For all David O'Leary's wide-eyed innocence, he is nobody's mug.
- stare: When I asked about the severe discipline at El Bulli, he fixed me with a wide-eyed stare.
- wonder: Carine clambered out of her bunk and she and Amalia shared looks of wide-eyed wonder that mirrored the children's.
- child: Wherever we went in the village we seemed to be followed by a crowd of wide-eyed children.
- excitement: For sheer, wide-eyed excitement, nowhere else comes close to Staffordshire.
- expression: Instead, Huston just pulls this horrible wide-eyed, open-mouthed expression for 90 % of his scenes.
Modifying Another Word
- very: According to my colleagues I was pure white, very wide-eyed.
- rather: Again it was wonderful to see how friendships and trust grew from rather wide-eyed beginnings!
- so: I was just so wide-eyed about it all, but it was pretty exciting for that reason.
Used with adjective complement
- stare: D sat staring wide-eyed at the image of a faded naked woman.
- watch: The Sheriff's men, believing a ghost is among them, watch wide-eyed, holding their fire.
- go: This was another thing I loved - the benevolent communists going wide-eyed into the unrestrained free-market capitalism of New Mars.
- sit: Julie, on a teenage vegetarian kick, sat wide-eyed.
- listen: You primary-school child will listened wide-eyed to what you say, and usually believe it.
Preposition: in
anticipation: Finney is wide-eyed in anticipation of this kind of criticism.
Preposition: with
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