Meanings
comparative more dark-eyed · comparative darker-eyed · superlative most dark-eyed · superlative darkest-eyed
- Having dark eyes.
The dark-haired, darker-eyed Fraulein sat more or less alone in her schoolroom, giving guttural orders that we all found very funny.
1983, Elsa Lanchester, chapter 3, in Elsa Lanchester, Herself, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN, page 292 more examples
He was a Demon: the darkest-eyed, most dangerous type of Ashkind, historically the most violent and insidious and prone to political dissent, who had to be watched by the Department very carefully lest they rebel against the Government.
2015, Helena Coggan, chapter 6, in The Catalyst, London: Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN, pages 70–71He smiled, remembering the morning when Esteban and Gregorio, two of his darkest-eyed, blackest-haired and most sunburnt men, had come to him with a daring plan that he’d immediately sanctioned.
2017, Graham Hancock, “Friday 27 May 1520–Saturday 28 May 1520”, in Night of Sorrows (War God; 3), London: Coronet, →ISBN, page 293
Translations
Danish mørkøjet
- mørkøjethaving dark eyes
Lithuanian tamsiaãkis
- tamsiaãkishaving dark eyes
Norwegian Bokmål mørkøyd
- mørkøydhaving dark eyes
Polish ciemnooki
- ciemnookihaving dark eyes
Swedish mörkögd
- mörkögdhaving dark eyes
Cite this entry
dark-eyed. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dark-eyed
“dark-eyed.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dark-eyed. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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