Starry-eyed Definition

stärē-īd
adjective
Having a naively enthusiastic, overoptimistic, or romantic view; unrealistic.
A starry-eyed reformer.
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With the eyes sparkling in a glow of happiness, dreams, wonder, romance, etc.
Webster's New World
Impractical, unrealistic, overly optimistic, etc.
A starry-eyed reformer.
Webster's New World

Describing one who has naïvely optimistic hopes or outlooks.

He was so starry-eyed when he started, but reality ground him down, and he became both more realistic and more practical.
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Starry-eyed Sentence Examples

  • Secondly, we should not be quite so starry eyed about Cymdeithas as Richard is.

  • Mr President, I'm not starry-eyed about Europe.

  • She challenged us starry-eyed idealists to go into areas like Dagenham with your meaningless slogans instead of concrete policies.

  • This kind of talk is easy to counter with the claim that this is not a moral world, you starry-eyed ideologue.

  • Worse than confirming my darkest thoughts, it told me that my cynical pessimism is as starry-eyed idealism to the reality.

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