Fish-eyed
adj, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 simple past and past participle of fish-eye form-of, participle, past
- 1 Having eyes like those of fish.
"“You mean, like a tribe of fish-eyed monsters living down here?”"
- 2 Characterized by an unblinking stare that lacks warmth or friendliness.
"If you speak to one of these saffron-hued natives, especially to one of the children, you are generally met by a very curious, fish-eyed stare without a gleam of intelligence back of it, and you wait long before you get a reply."
- 3 Visually distorted as if seen through a fisheye lens.
"The fish-eyed hole showed only an empty mauve hallway at first, but then a dot of yellow came in fast from the left and enlarged to fill the circumference of the view before receding toward the right, the direction of the elevators."
- 4 Having a fisheye lens.
"In the final scene, the fish-eyed camera plummets headlong down the rope toward the ground in the idiom of the helmet-cammed bungee jump."
Example
More examples"“You mean, like a tribe of fish-eyed monsters living down here?”"
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