Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for starry-eyed
Adjective
  • Account hopes to combat misogynistic online content Creators like Andrew Tate provide a pipeline for men seeking advice about romantic rejection, physical self-esteem and economic insecurity to fall into radicalism and misogyny.
    Rachel Hale, USA Today, 29 Apr. 2025
  • Not a depiction of romantic bliss, but a kind of love song all the same.
    Kelefa Sanneh, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Aguilar, the chair of the House Democratic Caucus, downplayed impeachment talk as impractical to reporters Tuesday.
    Emily Hallas, The Washington Examiner, 29 Apr. 2025
  • While extended vacations may be impractical during economic downturns, the core idea remains relevant: managers must champion employee well-being to sustain performance.
    Anjali Chaudhry, Forbes.com, 25 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Lucas loved the idealistic adventure reels of the ’30s and ’40s where good and evil were divided by a fresh coat of paint.
    Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2025
  • The agreement was motivated primarily by the desire for greater economic efficiency and personal convenience, not by idealistic efforts to realize absolute humanist or European federal ideals.
    Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 22 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Soviet citizens in the 1980s could no longer ignore the glaring differences between the utopian promises of communism and the reality of an autocratic and incompetent regime.
    Margaret MacMillan, The Atlantic, 30 Apr. 2025
  • Ars Technica: Your AI take is that neither the dystopian view of sentient AI or the utopian view is necessarily correct.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 25 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • This, in turn, becomes logically reliant on the idealist paradigm of Consciousness as the fundamental lowest common denominator of reality.
    Carlo Tortora Brayda, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025
  • Labour leader Starmer, though, has taken a realist rather than an idealist approach to the president, putting Britain's foreign policy interests above the strong opposition to Trump in the rank and file of his own party.
    Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 3 Mar. 2025
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“Starry-eyed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/starry-eyed. Accessed 6 May. 2025.

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