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wide-eyed
adj 3
Collocations
4ADJ.
left, longer, tiny
VERB + WIDE-EYED
asked, curly-haired, leave, looked
WIDE-EYED + NOUN
idealism, optimism
ADV.
really
Definitions
adj
1
Astonished or surprised.
The magician’s trick left the audience wide-eyed.
2
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.
3
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.
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The magician’s trick left the audience wide-eyed.
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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
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She was like her mother: tiny, curly-haired, and wide-eyed.
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"Do you never imagine things different from what they really are?" asked Anne wide-eyed. "No."
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Tom's wide-eyed optimism is beginning to grate on my nerves.
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His wide-eyed idealism is really starting to get on my nerves.
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