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Definition of "round-eyed" [round-eyed]

  • Having large round wide-open eyes (adjective)
  • Exhibiting childlike simplicity and credulity (adjective)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

Use "round-eyed" in a sentence
  • "My Keepon, a round-eyed robot that looks like two oranges fused together, coos when touched on the head and bobs and twists rhythmically to music."
  • "The little one all rosy and dimpled (just as she had pictured him!) looking around in round-eyed wonder."
  • "Chinese wealth is on the Pacific Coast — and the wealthy families and military leaders of that area have far stronger reasons to cast their lot with the round-eyed foreign devils that to let Beijing confiscate their wealth to fill the rice bowls of a billion or so starving peasants in central and northern China."