|
|
Definition of Round-eyed
1. Adjective. Exhibiting childlike simplicity and credulity. "Listened in round-eyed wonder"
Similar to: Naif, Naive
Derivative terms: Simpleness, Simplicity
2. Adjective. Having large round wide-open eyes.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Round-eyed
Literary usage of Round-eyed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Strictures on Mr. Collier's New Edition of Shakespeare, 1858 by Alexander Dyce (1859)
"to and fro, when all that is intended is to call her round-eyed. The Eev. Mr.
Dyce must have entirely forgotten the ' golden rigol' of ' Henry IV., ..."
2. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1850)
"His hair is grizzly, and he has a hooked noee, ridden by a pair of iron-rimmed,
round-eyed spectacles, glaring from under the shade of a broad-brimmed hat ..."
3. The Knickerbocker; Or, New York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew, Timothy Flint, Washington Irving (1850)
"His hair is grizzly, and he has a hooked noee, ridden by a pair of iron-rimmed,
round-eyed spectacles, glaring from under the shade of a broad-brimmed hat ..."
4. Appletons' Cyclopædia of Applied Mechanics: A Dictionary of Mechanical by Appleton, firm, publishers, New York (1880)
"The round-eyed pick is generally used in Surface or placer mining, and is probably
the most convenient tool for that work. The flat-eyed pick is preferred ..."
5. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept, Southern Pacific Company (1912)
"This dissertation upon storks left absolutely nothing to be explained and so the
little boys departed, in such a round-eyed wonder that their auntie, ..."
Other Resources:
