red-eyed

adjective

Having the eyelids reddened, e.g. by tears or lack of sleep.

“They were very red-eyed after playing video-games for 72 hours straight.”

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Meanings

adjectivered-eyed (comparative more red-eyed, superlative most red-eyed)

comparative more red-eyed · superlative most red-eyed

  1. Having the eyelids reddened, e.g. by tears or lack of sleep.

    They were very red-eyed after playing video-games for 72 hours straight.

    1 more example

    She was frankly disappointed. For some reason she had expected to discover a burglar of one or another accepted type—either a dashing cracksman in full-blown evening dress, lithe, polished, pantherish, or a common yegg, a red-eyed, unshaven, burly brute in the rags and tatters of a tramp.

    1914 November, Louis Joseph Vance, “An Outsider […]”, in Munsey’s Magazine, volume LIII, number II, New York, N.Y.: The Frank A[ndrew] Munsey Company, […], published 1915, →OCLC, chapter III (Accessory After the Fact), page 382, column 2
  2. artsOf a person, having the pupils appearing in a red color due to a reflection off the blood vessels in the eye.
  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see red, eyed.
verb
  1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of red-eye
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APA

red-eyed. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/red-eyed

MLA

“red-eyed.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/red-eyed. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “red-eyed,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/red-eyed.

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