Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Extremely observant; vigilant.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Vigilant; watchful; extremely observant. See
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Extremely observant; watchful; sharp-sighted.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. having very keen vision
- adj. carefully observant or attentive; on the lookout for possible danger
Examples
“If that day comes, our cities will be Argus-eyed with countless thousands of digital cameras scanning the faces of passengers at airports, pedestrians on city streets, drivers on highways, ATM customers, mall shoppers, and visitors to any federal facility.”
Alfred W. McCoy: How America's Wars Are Systematically Destroying Our Liberties
“This afternoon was spent out, drinking buckets of coffee and working on multiple writing projects - part of which work was re-reading bits of The Duel by Giacomo Casanova:Of kings "... even their slightest gesture is carefully examined by the Argus-eyed onlookers; and their words, however little they are susceptible of such treatment, are subject to a hundred different interpretations.”
“Favored by this annual turmoil, the happy Augustine escaped the investigations of her Argus-eyed relations.”
“The great fault of most of these journals is their gross personality; even the privacy of domestic life is invaded by their Argus-eyed scrutiny.”
“Argus-eyed, able and happy to cope with this rolling miscellany of facts and sciences, and by his own versatility to dispose of them with ease; a manly mind, unembarrassed by the variety of coats of convention with which life had got encrusted, easily able by his subtlety to pierce these and to draw his strength from nature, with which he lived in full communion.”
“The Argus-eyed Commission then fined Microsoft $357 million in July this year for dragging its feet over the provision of "complete and accurate" interface data.”
“Now I knew why it was that its frowning facade had seemed to watch us Argus-eyed as the Things had tossed us toward it.”
“Still, they must keep up a show for the Argus-eyed Dhimitri.”
“When the sunrise splashed across the fragmentary panes of glass that here and there remained in their frames, the farmer would stand still at his ploughing on the hill-slope and glance up at the great Argus-eyed building -- that had now, however, more sockets than eyes -- and a world of memories, of legends and superstitions, would buzz, with strange bewilderment, through his brain.”
“My walks, in which the Argus-eyed Bendel was constantly on the watch for me, extended only to the garden of the forest-ranger, to enjoy the society of one who was dear to me as my own existence.”
Lists
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More Adjectival Arcana
List of adjectives such as everduring that do not frequent common speech and writing. A continuation of my list Adjectival Arcana, which had grown to over 7700 words and had become far too cumbersome.
transpontine, fetichistic, everduring, tachygraphic, tachygraphical, holographic, holographical, spectrobolographic, autographic, chirographal, autographal, ipsographic and 1419 more...
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See, The Eyes Have It
List of words (or phrases) containing eye-, -eye-, or -eye. Beginning with red-eye and eyebright.
I've since begun adding other more oblique terms that lack the string -eye-, but that...red-eye, eyebright, arguw-eye, bigeye, bird's-eye, buckeye, blarneyed, wheyey, eyebrow, eyecup, eyedropper, eyeful and 296 more...
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Brochettes of Random Palavery
Another of my random palavery lists for words or phrases that haven't yet found a place in one or more of my other lists.
nonexclusivity, adaptationist, paxillin, adduct, unblushingly cribbed, ptomaïne, microsievert, millisievert, too big to jail, tastemaker, tinsmithing, Nimzo-Indian and 1616 more...
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hernesheir Here's an adjective you don't meet every day. Jan 12, 2012