Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Having sharp, bright eyes; keen-sighted.
- adj. Mentally acute or perceptive.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Having clear, bright eyes; clear-sighted; possessing acute and penetrating vision; hence, mentally acute or discerning.
Wiktionary
- adj. Having clear, sharp sight
- adj. Mentally acute and perspicacious
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Acutely perceptive or discerning.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. mentally acute or penetratingly discerning
Examples
“Carter was consulting daily with the best military minds and some clear-eyed realists, with no shortage of hawks in his circle of advisers.”
“And "The Major and the Minor," with Rogers's clear-eyed schemer masquerading as a child to save money.”
The Washington Post: Ginger Rogers at 100: Even with Astaire, always taking the lead
“But Ken Khachigian, a Republican strategist who wrote speeches for Reagan, said conservatives "need to be clear-eyed about Reagan" and how he sought to implement the principles he espoused.”
The Washington Post: Reagan at 100 casts shadow over Republican Party
“This new volume, Haunting Legacy: Vietnam and the American Presidency from Ford to Obama, is a clear-eyed look at the Vietnam War's fateful consequences -- especially subsequent wars -- up until the present in Afghanistan.”
The Huffington Post: Jamie Stiehm: The Vietnam War Ghost: Does It Still Live in Obama's White House?
“Her clear-eyed, girl-cheeked Joe might be anything but a prize-fighter.”
“She learned to look upon danger clear-eyed and with understanding, losing forever that panic fear which is bred of ignorance and which afflicts the city-reared, making them as silly as silly horses, so that they await fate in frozen horror instead of grappling with it, or stampede in blind self-destroying terror which clutters the way with their crushed carcasses.”
“They were of many breeds, but their common life had formed of them a certain type, -- a lean and wiry type, with trail-hardened muscles, and sun-browned faces, and untroubled souls which gazed frankly forth, clear-eyed and steady.”
“Shamecca has a clear-eyed view of what McDowell is up against -- and is hopeful that momentum for meaningful change is building.”
The Huffington Post: Randi Weingarten: Restoring Hope to McDowell County
“Without a clear-eyed examination of the problem along with some kind of collective determination to take it on, there's nothing any of us can do about it alone.”
The Huffington Post: Linda Flanagan: Why Adults Ignore Underage Drinking And Other Stories
“This was also about the time that his wife -- with the sort of clear-eyed convinction that sometimes only spouses have -- nominated her husband's portfolio for a Pulitzer.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘clear-eyed’.
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Beautiful and Ugly
Beautiful, attractive, well-formed
Ugly, unattractive, malformedadorable, alluring, angelic, appealing, appetizing, attractive, beaming, beauteous, beautiful, becoming, beguiling, bewitching and 180 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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I'd like to use these words more
jarring, stunning, habitually, mull, markedly, rigamorole, rigmarole, placate, higgledy-piggledy, fearsome, throw light, clear-eyed and 68 more...
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takchess Heard this twice this week. In a Hillary Clinton interview and this obituary by Margalit Fox
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/17/world/middleeast/anthony-shadid-reporter-in-the-middle-east-dies-at-43.html?ref=margalitfox
Mar 4, 2012