dewy-eyed

adjective

ˈdü-ē-ˌīd 

 also  ˈdyü-

: naively innocent and trusting

a dewy-eyed optimist

Synonyms

• aw-shucks
• dewy
• green
• ingenuous
• innocent
• naïf
• naif
• naive
• naïve
• primitive
• simple
• simpleminded
• uncritical
• unknowing
• unsophisticated
• unsuspecting
• unsuspicious
• unwary
• unworldly
• wide-eyed

Examples of dewy-eyed in a Sentence

dewy-eyed newlyweds who had yet to experience the trials and tribulations of married life

perpetrators of the fraud lured in dewy-eyed investors

Word History

First Known Use

1938, in the meaning defined above