bleary-eyed

adjective

Definition of bleary-eyednext
as in befuddled

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Recent Examples of bleary-eyed Expect bleary-eyed reflections on his long career and hopefully some all-star cameos. — Madeleine Janz, PEOPLE, 30 Apr. 2026 The Arabic harmonies, sung pristinely, are a clever pairing for a genre already so steeped in bleary-eyed mystique. — Kiana Mickles, Pitchfork, 19 Mar. 2026 Adult Swim viewers became part of a late-night collective bearing witness to clandestine artifacts anyone who went to bed at a reasonable hour would only hear about from their bleary-eyed friends. — Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 18 Mar. 2026 The crypto casinos weren’t like Las Vegas, where high-stakes poker players gambled in rooms separate from the bleary-eyed slots addicts. — Cecilia D'anastasio, Bloomberg, 27 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for bleary-eyed
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bleary-eyed
  1. befuddled
  2. stupefied
  3. dopey
  4. crapulous
  5. rocky
  6. beery
Adjective
  • The situation became murkier as French lawyer Suzane Blum took increasing control over the affairs of Simpson, who had become increasingly paranoid and befuddled.
    — Hadley Hall Meares, Vanity Fair, 7 Oct. 2026
  • The differing perspectives highlight the befuddled state of AI regulation in the United States.
    — Hadas Gold, CNN Money, 21 June 2026
Definition of befuddled
Adjective
  • Certain men have reportedly watched CCTV footage of their stupefied selves inexplicably helping their robbers gut their apartments of possessions.
    — Mattha Busby, Rolling Stone, 19 Aug. 2026
  • The man hugged a bag, the woman shouted and flailed her arms, and the young teenage boy pulled at his sister, who seemed stupefied.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 21 July 2026
Definition of stupefied
Adjective
  • Understandably, Penn struggles to hold these disparate points of focus together with a performance that vacillates between disarmingly dopey and almost willfully ignorant of the realities of the 2000s media landscape.
    — Todd Gilchrist, Variety, 17 Oct. 2026
  • Austin Abrams leads the movie as a dopey medical courier who lands smack-dab in the middle of a zombie outbreak.
    — Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 19 Sep. 2026
Definition of dopey
Adjective
  • Researchers have recently taken a closer look at the role of the immune system in provoking those crapulous mornings.
    — Jesse Hawley, Discover Magazine, 17 Mar. 2021
  • The memory ends with the image of my friend squatting, crapulous, and dumping her purse on the sidewalk.
    — Justin Torres, Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2021
Definition of crapulous
Adjective
  • After a rocky few years, Tatum O'Neal is looking on the bright side.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 20 Oct. 2026
  • Additionally, the unusually high angular momentum (or spin) of the Earth-moon system, when compared to observations of other rocky planets, also could be explained as one of the effects of a massive collision.
    — Micah Hanks, Space.com, 19 Oct. 2026
Definition of rocky
Adjective
  • Around five, the sun broke through the clouds, a beery yellow light that made the leaves glint like glass.
    — Robert Moor, New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2026
  • In 2023, Thomas made beery history by earning the title of Master Cicerone from the Cicerone Certification Program.
    — John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 24 Dec. 2025
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“Bleary-eyed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bleary-eyed. Accessed 20 Oct. 2026.

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