1
: having or marked by unsophisticated or uncritical acceptance or admiration : naive
wide-eyed innocence
2
: having the eyes wide open especially with wonder or astonishment
Examples of wide-eyed in a Sentence
a wide-eyed and trusting child
the sort of phony UFO "artifacts" that wide-eyed tourists fall for
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In California, individuals must possess a permit to touch or handle owls, so the owl could not be pet by the partygoers, but the group still enjoyed looking at and learning about the wide-eyed bird.
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Ashlyn Robinette, People.com, 23 Apr. 2025
What connects that fourth-place season under Howe and the early years of Kevin Keegan’s first spell as manager was that wide-eyed sense of possibility and buzz, how every win felt like a miracle.
—Chris Waugh, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2025
During a recent tech rehearsal for the Broadway play, the wide-eyed cast has huddled in the mezzanine to catch a glimpse of the creature in action, unfurling its gnarly tentacles in a maelstrom of billowing smoke and flashing red lights.
—Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 18 Apr. 2025
But trying to tell the wide-eyed students that trees are soulless breaks Janine’s determination to remain pragmatic.
—Ile-Ife Okantah, Vulture, 17 Apr. 2025
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Ashlyn Robinette, People.com, 23 Apr. 2025
What connects that fourth-place season under Howe and the early years of Kevin Keegan’s first spell as manager was that wide-eyed sense of possibility and buzz, how every win felt like a miracle.
—Chris Waugh, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2025
During a recent tech rehearsal for the Broadway play, the wide-eyed cast has huddled in the mezzanine to catch a glimpse of the creature in action, unfurling its gnarly tentacles in a maelstrom of billowing smoke and flashing red lights.
—Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 18 Apr. 2025
But trying to tell the wide-eyed students that trees are soulless breaks Janine’s determination to remain pragmatic.
—Ile-Ife Okantah, Vulture, 17 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for wide-eyed
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“Wide-eyed.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wide-eyed. Accessed 3 May. 2025.
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