starry-eyed

adjective

ˈstär-ē-ˌīd How to pronounce starry-eyed (audio)
Definition of starry-eyednext
as in romantic
having or marked by a tendency to be guided more by ideals than by reality the starry-eyed notion that international sports competitions actually help foster global harmony

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for starry-eyed
  1. romantic
  2. impractical
  3. idealistic
  4. utopian
  5. idealist
Adjective
  • Owning a cat can even improve our romantic relationships.
    Jackie (Ott) Jaakola, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
  • Their relationship, perhaps romantic, perhaps not, upends both of their lives.
    Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2025
Definition of romantic
Adjective
  • For instance, unused network segments can be powered down temporarily to save energy, a task that would be impractical to manage manually across thousands of network sites.
    Robert Backhouse, Forbes, 8 Jan. 2025
  • Experts dismiss an analogous design for the U.S. as impractical—Israel's defenses are vastly different to the U.S. for several reasons, not least the size of the country and who is doing the targeting.
    Dan Perry, Newsweek, 4 Jan. 2025
Definition of impractical
Adjective
  • McCourt’s pitch tries to encompass not just his idealistic vision for the Internet but pragmatic capitalist arguments.
    Clare Malone, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Your celestial ruler, Venus, is shining an idealistic light on your social circles, long-term goals and dreams, but Jupiter retrograde in Gemini urges you to consider your financial stability and sense of self-worth.
    Valerie Mesa, People.com, 14 Jan. 2025
Definition of idealistic
Adjective
  • The film revisits Puerto Rico’s utopian moment through the lens of rural filmmaking in the 1950s and 60s.
    Leo Barraclough, Variety, 9 Jan. 2025
  • Lobo is an alien mercenary and bounty hunter from the utopian planet of Czarnia in the DC comics.
    Brian Welk, IndieWire, 30 Dec. 2024
Definition of utopian
Adjective
  • In the new release, Temple plays idealist scientist Dr. Teddy Paine opposite Chiwetel Ejiofor’s General Rex Strickland — the overseer of a secret research facility dedicated to symbiotes.
    Raven Brunner, People.com, 25 Oct. 2024
  • The movie stars Adam Driver as Cesar Catilina, an idealist architect with the power to control time, who is determined to rebuild a city that seems like New York after an accident plunges it into ruins.
    Marco della Cava, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2024
Definition of idealist
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