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wide-eyed
adjective as in dewy-eyed
adjective as in gullible
adjective as in innocent
Weak matches
adjective as in naive
Strongest matches
Weak matches
- aboveboard
- artless
- callow
- candid
- confiding
- countrified
- credulous
- forthright
- frank
- fresh
- green
- guileless
- gullible
- harmless
- impulsive
- ingenuous
- innocuous
- instinctive
- jejune
- lamb
- like a babe in the woods
- natural
- open
- original
- patsy
- plain
- simple-minded
- spontaneous
- square
- sucker
- unaffected
- unjaded
- unpretentious
- unschooled
- unsuspecting
- unsuspicious
- untaught
- unworldly
- virgin
adjective as in pure
Weak matches
- babe in woods
- blameless
- celibate
- cherry
- continent
- exemplary
- guileless
- immaculate
- inculpable
- innocent
- inviolate
- irreproachable
- kid
- lily white
- maidenly
- modest
- pure as driven snow
- righteous
- sinless
- spotless
- stainless
- unblemished
- unblighted
- uncorrupted
- undefiled
- unprofaned
- unspotted
- unstained
- unsullied
- upright
- virgin
- virtuous
- wet behind ears
adjective as in unsophisticated
adjective as in unworldly
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Example Sentences
His co-captain, Derrik Rose, once detailed, in wide-eyed wonderment, a single meal Joa put away.
When a 16-year-old takes on that wide-eyed, touched-for-the-very-first-time role, it all comes off as a tad more…juvenile.
The victory in 1950 over England is precious, but in the way a unicorn might be: to be regarded wide-eyed, and scarcely believed.
“I found the help I needed to be healthy,” says Mindi, a wide-eyed woman with a round face and a chatty affect.
The mug shots have gone viral: wide-eyed, scared-looking Megan Huntsman, 39.
So when she looked at the window she saw only her own reflection, white and wide-eyed, above Aunt Harriet's fur neckpiece.
Whereat O'Hara, having no weapon, dropped the bag, and trotted wide-eyed forward to the thronged scene of the launchings.
Down gazed the moon, wide-eyed and sorrowful; and still more sorrowful and sweet, upwards gazed the moons pale sister.
She was beside me in an instant, wide‑eyed with fear, which even then I could see was fear only for me.
They stared at each other wide-eyed—but stirred by different feelings.
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On this page you'll find 312 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to wide-eyed, such as: dovelike, green, inexperienced, naive, pure, and sinless.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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