wide-eyed

comparative more wide-eyed · superlative most wide-eyed

1. figurativelyAstonished or surprised.

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

2. figurativelyNaive; 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.

   2014 December 20, Rebecca Ley, “City versus country childhoods”, in The Guardian

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

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

   1 more example

   2017, Jennifer S. Holland, For These Monkeys, It’s a Fight for Survival., National Geographic (March 2017)http://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/03/macaques-monkeys-indonesia-endangered-pet-trade/ Cartoonish, wide-eyed infants cling to their mothers or play together low to the ground.

   Synonyms: moon-eyed, owly-eyed, pie-eyed, saucer-eyed, goggle-eyed