Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A complete view.
- n. One that is pleasing to the sight, especially an attractive person.
- n. Sufficient observation to discover more than one had expected or enough to be satisfied: After an eyeful of his art collection, she decided to leave.
- n. An amount of material blown or directed into the eye: got an eyeful of water from the squirt gun.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Filling or attractive to the eye; visible; remarkable.
Wiktionary
- n. A full or complete view; a good look.
- n. A remarkable sight or a very attractive person (sometimes used ironically).
- n. An amount of material blown into the eye.
- adj. Filling or attractive to the eye; visible; remarkable.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. obsolete Filling or satisfying the eye; visible; remarkable.
- n. a view of something remarkable; a completely satisfying view; as much as, or more than, one would want to see.
- n. an unusually attractive person, especially a beautiful woman.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a strikingly beautiful woman
- n. a full view; a good look
Etymologies
- eye + -ful (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Good job of assembling an "eyeful" of a delicious burger.”
Jalapeno cheese bun recipe for a proper Texas burger | Homesick Texan
“I'm an old mom of 5, with a young heart, always on the lookout for the things that bring a little "eyeful" of joy to each day...”
“Defiantly she raised her chin, proud to be sitting next to Jack, no matter what kind of eyeful they were giving the bountiful traffic.”
“Alas, the resident eye candy got eliminated — but not before we got an eyeful of his favorite non-cooking pastime: painting naked women.”
Top Chef's "Malibu" Chris Explains His "Soothing" Naked Lady Art
“There you are, you've just caught yourself an ear or an eyeful of someone else's "I love you," and you are now obligated to say... something!”
The Huffington Post: Dori Hartley: Lurv, Luff, Lub and Sometimes, Love
“But then: Lightsflickonthenoff—and in one quick eyeful you do see me standing betwixt concrete pillars with my four-man crew tagging a crumbling wall beneath a bridge.”
“As he watched now, a Vesta-class ship, all stretched lines and an eyeful of speed, swooped around the planet.”
“I sat, getting an eyeful of what Detective Cole must have been facing for the last few minutes: three very challenging, unimpressed faces.”
“Shoppers on ritzy Rodeo Drive got an eyeful of Canalis as she posed next to her nude, black-and-white campaign portrait for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.”
The Huffington Post: Clooney ex Elisabetta Canalis gets naked for PETA
“The always early-adopting porn industry — whose Adult Entertainment Expo was right next door to CES — got an eyeful as well, from a company called Glacier Media Systems, which showed off a PC capable of transforming 2-D films into, in this case, some frighteningly in-your-face pornography.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘eyeful’.
-
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...
-
diioxyde's Words
macabre, egypt, egyptology, queen, love, sex, sister, lover, web, cobweb, line, circle and 223 more...
-
RocknRolla (2008)
Words from 2008 'RocknRolla' film.
drip, consent, foothold, bricks and mortar, mortar, councillor, let down, wand, clean out, leg-up, hasty, erect and 115 more...
-
Jacqueline's Words
glittery, horny, amazing, wanderlust, forlorn, lustily, nonchalant, cool, passive, submissive, roundabout, carousel and 558 more...
-
eye-ful(l)
eyeful, I-ful, i beamful, eifel
reckful, soulful, awful, aweful, presentful, nowful, mindful, zestful, apful, fruitful, tankful, thankful and 62 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for eyeful.
Comments
No comments yet...
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.