1
: having or marked by unsophisticated or uncritical acceptance or admiration : naive
wide-eyed innocence
2
: having the eyes wide open especially with wonder or astonishment
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Since the band’s 2007 live debut, their signature heavy-metal disco and pummeling theatricality have sent fans into wide-eyed frenzies.
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Kat Bein, SPIN, 26 Apr. 2024
An incredibly game Barbara Crampton aids Combs in his wide-eyed pursuit of looniness.
—Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 26 Apr. 2024
Whereas an older meme such as the indelible Doge—a wide-eyed Shiba Inu from a photograph taken in Japan—percolated online for years before becoming mega-popular, the Donghua Jinlong memes tore across TikTok in a matter of weeks.
—Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 24 Apr. 2024
The result will be a wide-eyed and enthusiastic outlook that will motivate you to resurrect your dreams, hopes and wishes.
—Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 21 Apr. 2024
But in some ways, their son’s wide-eyed response wasn’t so off base: From the perspective of the 2020s, there is something otherworldly about the mid-aughts internet that brought his parents together.
—Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 12 Apr. 2024
But Civil War’s Jessie is mostly so wide-eyed that there’s barely a character there.
—Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 12 Apr. 2024
The 25-year-old Priscilla actress perfectly balances Jessie’s wide-eyed naivety and tenaciousness, as the young journalist is horrified by the violence but unable to look away.
—Devan Coggan, EW.com, 12 Apr. 2024
Ella Purnell has the tough task of functioning as the series’ emotional fulcrum, as Lucy straddles the wide-eyed innocence of vault life with the gore and amorality of what happens in the real world.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 10 Apr. 2024
Kat Bein, SPIN, 26 Apr. 2024
An incredibly game Barbara Crampton aids Combs in his wide-eyed pursuit of looniness.
—Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 26 Apr. 2024
Whereas an older meme such as the indelible Doge—a wide-eyed Shiba Inu from a photograph taken in Japan—percolated online for years before becoming mega-popular, the Donghua Jinlong memes tore across TikTok in a matter of weeks.
—Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 24 Apr. 2024
The result will be a wide-eyed and enthusiastic outlook that will motivate you to resurrect your dreams, hopes and wishes.
—Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 21 Apr. 2024
But in some ways, their son’s wide-eyed response wasn’t so off base: From the perspective of the 2020s, there is something otherworldly about the mid-aughts internet that brought his parents together.
—Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 12 Apr. 2024
But Civil War’s Jessie is mostly so wide-eyed that there’s barely a character there.
—Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 12 Apr. 2024
The 25-year-old Priscilla actress perfectly balances Jessie’s wide-eyed naivety and tenaciousness, as the young journalist is horrified by the violence but unable to look away.
—Devan Coggan, EW.com, 12 Apr. 2024
Ella Purnell has the tough task of functioning as the series’ emotional fulcrum, as Lucy straddles the wide-eyed innocence of vault life with the gore and amorality of what happens in the real world.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 10 Apr. 2024
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“Wide-eyed.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wide-eyed. Accessed 6 May. 2024.
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