starry-eyed

Speech parts

1. starry-eyed - Adjective

2. starry-eyed - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

unrealistically or naively optimistic

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Synonyms

simple romantic innocent impractical optimistic inexperienced silly utopian visionary idealistic trusting gullible dreamy ingenuous credulous

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Antonyms

hard negative suspicious hardened doubtful pessimistic

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Related terms

stars in one's eyes

Examples

Don't get starry-eyed about somebody you can't have, especially if it blinds you to somebody who's really important. Rick Riordan

To be realistic today is to be visionary. To be realistic is to be starry-eyed. Hubert Humphrey

And your life,' Katie said to Christy, 'is turning into a rather predictable romance. Girl meets boy. Boy is a dork for four years. Girl blossoms into a gorgeous woman. Boy finds his brain. Girl turns into starry-eyed mush head. Robin Jones Gunn

I know I'm guilty of and I think a lot of people are guilty of sort of getting starry-eyed with love and sort of looking over the bad things and keep going and you don't really prepare for how much work marriage really is. John Krasinski

a starry-eyed reformer Source: Internet

starry-eyed idealism Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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