wide-eyed

Definitions

1. 1

   Astonished or surprised.

   • The magician’s trick left the audience wide-eyed.
2. 2

   Naive

   Naive; innocent; like a baby.

   • Country life doesn’t protect you from real life. A rural childhood may leave you wide-eyed a bit longer about some things, but it doesn’t confer the insulating innocence that some parents seem to hope.
3. 3

   Used other than figuratively or idiomatically

   Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see wide, eye, -ed.

   • She was like her mother: tiny, curly-haired, and wide-eyed.

The neighborhood

• neighborjaw-dropping
• neighborwall-eyed