Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having the eyes wide open, as in surprise.
- adjective Watchful and alert.
from The Century Dictionary.
- With eyes wide open, as in wonder or watchfulness; watchful; vigilant.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective With eyes widely open; alert to possible danger; watchful; vigilant.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
alert andvigilant
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective carefully observant or attentive; on the lookout for possible danger
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Examples
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He was just as open-eyed towards us and the UCB in this comedy basement as we were to this megawatt star.
Ross Luippold: Diddy Makes His Live Comedy Debut Ross Luippold 2011
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He was just as open-eyed towards us and the UCB in this comedy basement as we were to this megawatt star.
Ross Luippold: Diddy Makes His Live Comedy Debut Ross Luippold 2011
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Attlee is generally a good-natured guide, at once open-eyed and sceptical, but once in a while his equilibrium vanishes.
Nocturne: A Journey in Search of Moonlight by James Attlee – review 2011
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He was just as open-eyed towards us and the UCB in this comedy basement as we were to this megawatt star.
Ross Luippold: Diddy Makes His Live Comedy Debut Ross Luippold 2011
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It would be very wise for us to be open-eyed about Paris' grand designs.
Amb. Marc Ginsberg: "No Vacancy" at Sarkozy's Club Med Amb. Marc Ginsberg 2011
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The first is a blind mating of the blind; the second, a clear and open-eyed union of male and female who find enough in common to warrant that union.
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His closing line: "I bow my head to the youth of Iran, the youth that is open-eyed, bold and far stronger and more numerous than the near-beardless vigilantes."
Iran Election Live-Blogging (Monday June 22) The Huffington Post News Team 2009
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In a 2001 speech that has prompted wide debate and is likely to be part of her nomination hearings, Sotomayor, now a judge on a federal appeals court, described her concept of an open-eyed justice: one who aspires to impartiality but cannot be divorced from her gender, ethnicity and upbringing.
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Despite her heavy heart she watched in open-eyed wonder as together they left the Bay of Lost Dolphins, left the jagged rocks of the coast, and headed out to the open sea.
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It would be very wise for us to be open-eyed about Paris' grand designs.
Amb. Marc Ginsberg: "No Vacancy" at Sarkozy's Club Med Amb. Marc Ginsberg 2011
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