Wide-eyed

adj

adj ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Astonished or surprised. figuratively

    "The magician’s trick left the audience wide-eyed."

  2. 2
    Naive; innocent; like a baby. figuratively

    "Country life doesn’t protect you from real life. A rural childhood may leave you wide-eyed a bit longer about some things, but it doesn’t confer the insulating innocence that some parents seem to hope."

  3. 3
    Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see wide, eye, -ed.

    "She was like her mother: tiny, curly-haired, and wide-eyed."

Adjective
  1. 1
    (used of eyes) fully open or extended wordnet
  2. 2
    exhibiting childlike simplicity and credulity wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms
agapeagapeaghastagogamazedartless

Example

More examples

""Do you never imagine things different from what they really are?" asked Anne wide-eyed. "No.""

More for "wide-eyed"

SynonymsSentencesPronunciationTranslate

Next best steps

Find stronger synonymsSee usage examplesCheck pronunciationBrowse writing guides

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.