Definitions
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adj. having large round wide-open eyes
- adj. exhibiting childlike simplicity and credulity
Etymologies
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Examples
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My Keepon, a round-eyed robot that looks like two oranges fused together, coos when touched on the head and bobs and twists rhythmically to music.
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The little one all rosy and dimpled (just as she had pictured him!) looking around in round-eyed wonder.
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Chinese wealth is on the Pacific Coast — and the wealthy families and military leaders of that area have far stronger reasons to cast their lot with the round-eyed foreign devils that to let Beijing confiscate their wealth to fill the rice bowls of a billion or so starving peasants in central and northern China.
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"Of course, a costume ball can be a very tame thing, but when all the exquisitely gowned women on the floor are men and a number of the smartest men are women, ah then, we have something over which to thrill and grow round-eyed," reported the gossipy black weekly tabloid The Inter-State Tattler.
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She realized he was staring round-eyed at the door beside the nightstand.
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With their long pigtails, red sashes and curved swords, the Boxers struck fear in the round-eyed missionaries and merchants who seemed to be overrunning China.
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Even more appropriately, Dean is instantly freaked out, complete with mouth woobles and round-eyed terror.
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There is a framed photo of Kevin as a round-eyed, smiling five-year-old.
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Skif was white-and round-eyed with astonishment, for he was not a strong Mindspeaker, and it would take a powerful Mindspeaker indeed to make him Hear.
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Alan Mahoney, Hugh's friend and boyhood chum, had listened to the argument round-eyed, without joining it.
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