blue-eyed

adjective

ˈblü-ˌīd 

1

: having blue eyes

2

: performed by whites

blue-eyed soul

also : white

a blue-eyed imitator of R&B stars

Examples of blue-eyed in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

And so Heyerdahl recast the island’s earliest settlers as members of a Caucasian race who had migrated from what is now Iraq or Turkey to the Americas and then across the Pacific, and who were tall, fair, blue-eyed, and bearded—not unlike Heyerdahl himself, as Pitts wryly observes. —Margaret Talbot, New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2026

Similarly, the Power Station’s explosive sonics added another musical dimension for the veteran singer Palmer, whose repertoire previously consisted of blue-eyed soul, reggae, power pop and New Wave. —David Chiu, Forbes.com, 24 Jan. 2026

But over the past year, memes about Agartha—a mystical, underground city in the center of the Earth full of flaxen-haired, blue-eyed people—kept going viral and have become a staple of the youth internet. —Ali Breland, The Atlantic, 23 Jan. 2026

The images of Etan’s smiling, cherubic face were widely distributed during the yearslong search for the blond, blue-eyed boy. —Ray Sanchez, CNN Money, 29 Nov. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1572, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for blue-eyed

• actinide
• aldehyde
• alkoxide
• alongside
• amplified
• arsenide
• beautified
• biocide
• butoxide
• calcified
• ceramide
• certified