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Definition of Sharp-eyed

1. Adjective. Having very keen vision. "Quick-sighted as a cat"

2. Adjective. Keenly perceptive or alert. "Quick-sighted into the faults of the time"

3. Adjective. Having keen eyesight.

Definition of Sharp-eyed

1. Adjective. Attentive, given to noticing things, aware. ¹

2. Adjective. Having acute vision, having good eyesight. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sharp-eyed

sharks sharkskin sharkskins sharksucker sharksuckers sharky sharn sharnier sharniest sharns

sharny sharp-and-a-half sharp-cornered sharp-eared sharp-eyed (current term) sharp-limbed sharp-pointed sharp-set sharp-shinned hawk sharp-shinned hawks

sharp-sighted sharp-sightedness sharp-tailed grouse sharp-tongued sharp-witted sharp-worded sharp as a tack sharp cookie sharp practice

Literary usage of Sharp-eyed

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Across Africa by Verney Lovett Cameron (1877)
"sharp-eyed WAGOGO. 0 IN the morning of the 30th of May, several May, hands were absent and five had deserted. _!'..'"_ Amongst the latter was the man whom I ..."

2. Sketches in Crude Oil: Some Accidents and Incidents of the Petroleum by John James McLaurin (1896)
"About it the sharp-eyed scouts thronged night and day. On October eleventh the Christie was known to be TELEGRAPH-OFFICE IN CARRIAGE, GROUP OF SCOUTS AND ..."

3. 595 Pulpit Pungencies: With a Table of Contents by Henry Ward Beecher (1866)
"... or shop- bat"eyed worn, or rotten, or adulterated, are taken far back in the half-lights, where sharp- eyed clerks sell to bat-eyed customers. ..."

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