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wild-eyed

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wild-eyed (wldd)
adj.
1. Glaring in or as if in anger, terror, or madness.
2. Extreme and passionate in belief or advocacy: a wild-eyed nationalist; hatched a wild-eyed scheme.
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Adj.1.wild-eyed - appearing extremely agitated; "crowded the wild-eyed animals into a truck"
agitated - troubled emotionally and usually deeply; "agitated parents"
2.wild-eyed - not sensible about practical matters; idealistic and unrealistic; "as quixotic as a restoration of medieval knighthood"; "a romantic disregard for money"; "a wild-eyed dream of a world state"
quixotic, romantic
impractical - not practical; not workable or not given to practical matters; "refloating the ship proved impractical because of the expense"; "he is intelligent but too impractical for commercial work"; "an impractical solution"


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In Pollyanna's room, the nurse had found a purring gray cat on the bed vainly trying to attract the attention of a white-faced, wild-eyed little girl.
Pollyanna by Porter, Eleanor H. View in context
The cub reporter was an artist, and it was a large brush with which he laid on the local color - wild-eyed long-haired men, neurasthenia and degenerate types of men, voices shaken with passion, clenched fists raised on high, and all projected against a background of oaths, yells, and the throaty rumbling of angry men.
Martin Eden by London, Jack View in context
Now all of a sudden, into the midst of this peaceful scene burst that slim-shanked boy in the brief shirt, wild-eyed, erect-haired, and shouting, "Fire, fire
A Tramp Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context
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