wide-eyed

Astonished or surprised.

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

Naive; innocent; like a baby.

Country life doesn’t protect you from real life. A rural childhood may leave you wide-eyed a bit longer about some things, but it doesn’t confer the insulating innocence that some parents seem to hope.

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

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

2017, Jennifer S. Holland, For These Monkeys, It’s a Fight for Survival., National Geographic (March 2017)http://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/03/macaques-monkeys-indonesia-endangered-pet-trade/ Cartoonish, wide-eyed infants cling to their mothers or play together low to the ground.