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Definition of "single-eyed" []

  • Having only one eye; cyclopean; monoculous; one-eyed, as the Cyclops Polyphemus figuring in Homer's Odyssey, or as various animals. See Cyclops, Monoculus.
  • Having the eye single or sound; earnest; devoted; unselfish. Compare single, adjective, 8.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

Use "single-eyed" in a sentence
  • "I'm thinking, as I ponder the wisdom of Ursula LeGuin, that American culture is at the end of what it can accomplish with its single-eyed vision."
  • "For the figure of the ungainly foe would stride across the delicious vision, huge against the waves like Cyclops, and like him gesticulant, but unhappily not so single-eyed that the slippery fair might despise him."
  • "But surely June, the warm, the single-eyed, would never tell Jon anything that might stop him being useful to her Rafaelite."
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