Word info Synonyms

wide-eyed

Speech parts

1. wide-eyed - Adjective

2. wide-eyed - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

exhibiting childlike simplicity and credulity

(used of eyes) fully open or extended

Source: WordNet

Alternative names

wide eyed

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Examples

Ammu loved her children (of course), but their wide-eyed vulnerability and their willingness to love people who didn't really love them exasperated her and sometimes made her want to hurt them-- just as an education, a precaution. Arundhati Roy

[Jason] faltered when he looked at Leo, who was mimicking taking notes with an air pencil. "Go on, Professor Grace!” he said, wide-eyed. "I wanna get an A on the test. Rick Riordan

Listening and being curious and wide-eyed in the world, I think, is what allows us to move forward, progress, evolve and learn and alter our behavior and become more self-aware. I think that listening is kind of what its all about. Andrew Zuckerman

The world is so different for a child, waking in the mornings, wide-eyed and ready to take it all in. Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark

I sat very still, as befitted a small boy among strangers, staring wide-eyed into a world I did not know. I was six years old and my father was dying. Louis L'Amour

One thing that I think never goes out of style is just purity. Niceness and purity. And the Muppets have never lost that. Kermit especially is just wide-eyed wonder, unblinking. And he can't blink. Which I think probably helps. Jason Segel

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