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round-eyed

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Adj.1.round-eyed - exhibiting childlike simplicity and credulity; "childlike trust"; "dewy-eyed innocence"; "listened in round-eyed wonder"
naif, naive - marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience; "a teenager's naive ignorance of life"; "the naive assumption that things can only get better"; "this naive simple creature with wide friendly eyes so eager to believe appearances"
2.round-eyed - having large round wide-open eyes
eyed - having an eye or eyes or eyelike feature especially as specified; often used in combination; "a peacock's eyed feathers"; "red-eyed"
Translations
round-eyed [ˈraʊndˈaɪd] ADJ & ADV to look at sb round-eyedmirar a algn con los ojos desorbitados
round-eyed [ˌraʊndˈaɪd] adj (fig) → con gli occhi sbarrati
round-eyed [ˌraʊndˈaɪd] adj (fig) → con gli occhi sbarrati


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A good roguish thing is also the long silence, and to look, like the winter-sky, out of a clear, round-eyed countenance:--
In the sitting room she found waiting for her a round-eyed, flushed-faced boy, who began to speak at once.
The child realized the grandeur of the news; but not as yet its sadness; and stood looking at Tess with round-eyed importance, till, beholding the effect produced upon her, she said--
 
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