Exhibiting childlike simplicity and credulity.
(Used of eyes) fully open or extended.
1 His great stories at bed time had made me wide - eyed with wonder.
2 In the interval the two children watched the orchestra with wide - eyed interest.
3 The engineer started up, wide - eyed and all alert now in the gloom.
4 I gasp and rise to my feet, staring wide - eyed at the paper.
5 The sightless sockets of the old moose stared wide - eyed down the river.
6 She let herself stare at him wide - eyed , as was her natural reaction.
7 Percy had offered her his hand, and she, wide - eyed , had taken it.
8 No response, just Calli's usual wide - eyed , flat expression gazing back at her.
9 Solon took it respectfully, gazing at her in wide - eyed and open-mouthed wonder.
10 Baldus clung wide - eyed behind Arkoniel, a small bundle clutched in one hand.
11 A sudden rush of painful recollection unceremoniously jolted Faith into wide - eyed awareness.
12 All night she lay staring wide - eyed through the darkness till the dawn.
13 She sat up in bed, wide - eyed , peering into the darkness and listening.
14 The children did not even cry; they stared, wide - eyed , paralysed with fear.
15 I try to keep up my wide - eyed act, but it crumbles easily.
16 In Munich, later that month, an audience had stared, wide - eyed and open-mouthed.
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