What is a synonym for "round-eyed"?

Common synonyms include: childlike, dewy-eyed, saucer-eyed, simple, wide-eyed, wide-eyed.

Round-eyed

adj

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Adjective

1
Synonym of wide-eyed.

Adjective

1
having large round wide-open eyes wordnet
2
exhibiting childlike simplicity and credulity wordnet

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childlike dewy-eyed saucer-eyed simple wide-eyed wide-eyed

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"She was at a High School, at the inarticulate stage last time he was over, a round-eyed, pale-faced girl, with nothing of her mother in her, a silent stolid creature, who took it all as a matter of course, let her mother make a fuss of her, and then said "May I go now?""

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