Meaning

3 senses
  1. (figuratively)Astonished or surprised.

    The magician’s trick left the audience wide-eyed.

  2. (figuratively)Naive; innocent; like a baby.

  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see wide, eye, -ed.

    She was like her mother: tiny, curly-haired, and wide-eyed.

More definitions
  • (used of eyes) fully open or extended
  • exhibiting childlike simplicity and credulity

Translations

4 languages

Forms

more wide-eyed, most wide-eyed
Comparativemore wide-eyed Lesson
Superlativemost wide-eyed Lesson

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Synonyms

10 synonyms
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Word family

1 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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