1
: having or marked by unsophisticated or uncritical acceptance or admiration : naive
wide-eyed innocence
2
: having the eyes wide open especially with wonder or astonishment

Examples of wide-eyed in a Sentence

a wide-eyed and trusting child the sort of phony UFO "artifacts" that wide-eyed tourists fall for
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It's all anchored by MacLachlan's wide-eyed appreciation of the region's Douglas firs, good coffee, and cherry pie—all dictated in great detail to his offscreen secretary, Diana. Ars Technica, 17 Jan. 2025 An 1843 painting by the artist Margaret Gillies that went missing for more than a century depicts a young, wide-eyed Dickens. Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Jan. 2025 Hearing and watching them up close allowed this wide-eyed, slack-jawed teenager to experience a veritable jazz hall of fame — live and in real time — with back-to-back performances by some of the genre’s most influential artists of the 20th century. George Varga, The Mercury News, 12 Jan. 2025 Yet Tracy turned out to be a perfect match for Ted’s earnestness, dad jokes, and wide-eyed romanticism. EW.com, 10 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for wide-eyed 

Word History

First Known Use

1789, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of wide-eyed was in 1789

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“Wide-eyed.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wide-eyed. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.

Kids Definition

wide-eyed

adjective
ˈwīd-ˈīd
1
: having the eyes wide open especially with wonder or astonishment
2

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