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Wide-eyed

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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

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