1
: having or marked by unsophisticated or uncritical acceptance or admiration : naive
wide-eyed innocence
2
: having the eyes wide open especially with wonder or astonishment
Examples of wide-eyed in a Sentence
a wide-eyed and trusting child
the sort of phony UFO "artifacts" that wide-eyed tourists fall for
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A couple of my anxious students turned to me wide-eyed.
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Sally Ventura
june 23, Literary Hub, 23 June 2025
Jaws is my favorite film, encompassing my feelings as a young wide-eyed child seeing it for the first time at a drive-in (talk about larger than life, especially for a small kid) and then rewatching it endlessly on TV and VHS until the tapes wore out.
—Mark Hughes, Forbes.com, 21 June 2025
If Miller’s wide-eyed turn leaves him more of a blank slate than necessary, that works well enough for a character who just might still have a shot at one day becoming a whole, functional person.
—Dennis Harvey, Variety, 20 June 2025
The Wailing feels almost clumsily human, a wide-eyed, panicking look at a world gone mad.
—Daniel Dockery, Vulture, 18 June 2025
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Sally Ventura
june 23, Literary Hub, 23 June 2025
Jaws is my favorite film, encompassing my feelings as a young wide-eyed child seeing it for the first time at a drive-in (talk about larger than life, especially for a small kid) and then rewatching it endlessly on TV and VHS until the tapes wore out.
—Mark Hughes, Forbes.com, 21 June 2025
If Miller’s wide-eyed turn leaves him more of a blank slate than necessary, that works well enough for a character who just might still have a shot at one day becoming a whole, functional person.
—Dennis Harvey, Variety, 20 June 2025
The Wailing feels almost clumsily human, a wide-eyed, panicking look at a world gone mad.
—Daniel Dockery, Vulture, 18 June 2025
See All Example Sentences for wide-eyed
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“Wide-eyed.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wide-eyed. Accessed 9 Jul. 2025.
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