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Definition: Eyed |
EyedAdjective1. Having an eye or eyes or eyelike feature especially as specified; often used in combination; "an eyed hook"; "a peacock's eyed feathers"; "red-eyed". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "eyed" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Eyed One-eyed people. (See Arimaspians, Cyclops.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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| Antonym: eyeless (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Beauty | Bright, bright eyed; rosy cheeked, cherry cheeked; rosy, ruddy; blooming, in full bloom. |
Intelligence Wisdom | Adjective: intelligent, quick of apprehension, keen, acute, alive, brainy, awake, bright, quick, sharp; quick witted, keen witted, clear witted, sharp- eyed, sharp sighted, sharp witted; wide-awake; canny, shrewd, astute; clear-headed; farsighted; discerning, perspicacious, penetrating, piercing; argute; quick-witted, nimble-witted, needle-witted; sharp as a needle, sharp as a tack; alive to; (cognizant); clever; (apt); arch; (cunning); pas si bete; acute. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Eyed |
| English words defined with "eyed": disdainful ♦ haughty ♦ lordly ♦ prideful ♦ sniffy, supercilious, swaggering ♦ up and down. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "eyed": Blue eyed Maid ♦ Steal a Horse. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | You may be a one eyed jack around here, but I've seen the other side of your face (One-Eyed Jacks; writing credit: Charles Neider; Guy Trosper) I call that bold talk for a one eyed fat man. (True Grit; writing credit: Charles Portis; Marguerite Roberts) The brutal bungalow of the Blinking Buzzards, a bold bad bunch of blood-thirsty bandits who would break into a bank, blow a battleship to bits or beat up a blue eyed baby blonde (The 'High Sign'; writing credit: Edward F. Cline; Buster Keaton) | |
Lyrics | Said you free that brown eyed man (Brown Eyed Handsome Man; performing artist: Chuck Berry) Oh my starry eyed surprise, sundown to sunrise (Starry Eyed Surprise; performing artist: Paul Oakenfold) You my brown eyed girl ("Brown Eyed Girl"; performing artist: Van Morrison) Wide Eyed And Grinning, She Never Tired (Wide Open Spaces; performing artist: DIXIE CHICKS) Pretty eyed, pirate smile, you'll marry a music man (Tiny Dancer; performing artist: Elton John) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Hungry Eyed Woman (1971) The One Eyed Soldiers (1966) Blue Eyed Soul (1943) The Pie Eyed Piper (1918) One Eyed King (2001) | |
Song Titles | Cotton- Eyed Joe (performing artist: The Chieftans) Bug Eyed Monster (performing artist: Jordin Kare) Starry Eyed Surprise (performing artist: Paul Oakenfold) Green Eyed Lady (performing artist: Sugar Loaf) BROWN EYED GIRL (performing artist: Van Morrison ) | |
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![]() | Cloudless Outer Banks as Eyed By SeaWiFS. Credit: NASA. | ![]() | "I'll tell ya what! Le's [sic] play goulashes ev'ry hand an' make th' deuces an' one eyed jacks wild!". Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "One eyed" by Ary Post Commentary: "Sunflowers in French." | "One eyed / half" by Jozsef Szoke Commentary: "One eyed closeup." |
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| Author | Quotation |
William Shakespeare | To me, fair friend, you never can be old. For as you were when first your eye I eyed. Such seems your beauty still. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Ruthie and Winfield stood near to Ma and eyed the strangers belligerently |
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| "Eyed" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 84.63% of the time. "Eyed" is used about 423 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 84.63% | 358 | 15,045 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 9.69% | 41 | 53,521 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 4.96% | 21 | 76,261 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.71% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 423 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "eyed": be cross eyed ♦ become cross eyed ♦ clear eyed ♦ cock eyed ♦ crossed eyed person ♦ dry eyed ♦ one eyed ♦ open eyed astonishment ♦ skew eyed ♦ squint eyed ♦ starry eyed ♦ wall eyed. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "eyed": blank-eyed, bog-eyed, boggle-eyed, cock-eyed, cold-eyed, dark-eyed, dead-eyed, doe-eyed, dreamy-eyed, giant-eyed, glass-eyed, glassy-eyed, hard-eyed, heavy-eyed, hot-eyed, keen-eyed, large-eyed, moist-eyed, narrow-eyed, one-eyed, open-eyed, pop-eyed, sad-eyed, shining-eyed, slant-eyed, slit-eyed, soft-eyed, steely-eyed, weasel-eyed, white-eyed, wide-eyed, wild-eyed, yellow-eyed. | |
Containing "eyed": big-eyed mackerel, big-eyed scad, Black-eyed pea, black-eyed Susan, black-eyed Susan vine, blue-eyed African daisy, blue-eyed boy, Blue-eyed grass, blue-eyed Mary, blue-eyed yellow warbler, covered-eyed medusae, dark-eyed junco, golden-eyed fly, green-eyed monster, maiden blue-eyed Mary, Naked-eyed medusa, naked-eyed medusae, one-eyed monster, ox-eyed daisy, red-eyed bream, red-eyed vireo, round-eyed wide, Sessile-eyed Crustacea, smb.'s blue-eyed boy, Stalked-eyed crustaceans, Stalk-eyed crustaceans, the green-eyed monster, two-eyed violet, wall-eyed herring, wall-eyed perch, white-eyed shad, white-eyed tit, wide-eyed-long-legged, Yellow-eyed grass, yellow-eyed grass family. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "eyed"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | vangosh (cockeye, cross-eyed, squint eyed, wall eyed), vëngërosh (cross-eyed, squint eyed), tepër optimist (starry eyed), syçakërr (cockeyed, goggle, goggle-eyed, squint eyed), me sy të shtrembëruar (skew eyed), me një sy (monocular, one eyed, single-eyed), jam i vëngër (be cross eyed), i vëngër (cockeye, leer, squint, wall eyed). (various references) | |
Arabic | يرئ (starry eyed), منبهر (dazed, starry eyed, thunderstruck), مائل (atilt, awry, bent, bevel, bias, cock eyed, diagonal, inclined, oblique, sidelong, skew, slant, slanted, slantwise, slope, sloping, stooping, thwart, titled), مثالي (exemplary, ideal, idealistic, model, perfect, platonic, starry eyed, typical, unearthly, utopian, visionary), لا يدمع (dry eyed), حول (ability, about, alien, around, be cross eyed, bleach, capricious, commit, concerning, deed, deliver, deter, divert, encode, hand down, hand over, make, metamorphose, power, process, redress, refer, relocate, round, stop, switch, transfer, transmute, transpose, turn, whimsical, withdraw, work, year), حالم (dreamer, dreamt, dreamy, faraway, moonstruck, starry eyed, visionary), اعور (one eyed), إختلط عليه الأمر (be cross eyed, doubt), أحول العينين (be cross eyed, become cross eyed, cross-eyed, squinting, walled), أحول (cock eyed, cross-eyed, squint), برئ (angelic, artless, blameless, clear, guileless, guiltless, harmless, honest, inculpable, ingenuous, innocent, naive, pure, simple, starry eyed, white). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | със зъл поглед (squint eyed), разноглед (skew eyed, squint), фантазьорски (fanciful, starry eyed, visionary), с големи очи (wall eyed), с гледащи втренчено очи (wall eyed), с лош поглед (squint eyed), с бяла роговица (wall eyed), с бледа роговица (wall eyed), кривоглед съм (be cross eyed, squint), кривоглед (cockeyed, cross-eyed, skew eyed, squint, squint eyed, squinting, strabismic, swivel-eyed), неодобрителен (deprecative, disapprobative, disapprobatory, disapproving, squint eyed, unapproving, unfavorable, unfavourable), злобен (bitchy, blackhearted, catty, despiteful, dirty, envenomed, evil-minded, ill natured, maleficent, malevolent, malicious, malignant, nasty, rancorous, sinister, spiteful, spleenful, squint eyed, venomous, vicious, virulent), ентусиазиран но непрактичен (starry eyed), едноок (one eyed, single-eyed), предубеден (bigoted, jaundiced, prejudiced, squint eyed, tendentious, unenlightened). (various references) | |
Czech | uhozený (cock eyed, corny), snílkovský (starry eyed), s jedním okem (one eyed), romantický (poetic, romantic, starry eyed), praštìný (Batty, cock eyed, crackers, daft, Dotty, loony, mad, moonstruck, moony, muddle-headed, nutty, touched), potřeštìný (cock eyed, crackers), pošetilý (airy fairy, cock eyed, crackpot, fatuous, fond, foolish, gowk, naïve, preposterous, silly, unreasonable), naivní (dewy-eyed, green, guileless, gullible, innocent, naïve, starry eyed), jednooký (one eyed, single-eyed), šilhavý (cock eyed, cockeyed, cross-eyed, squint, squint eyed), šilhat (be cross eyed, squint), šikmooký (skew eyed). (various references) | |
Danish | vinterrokke (big skate, eyed skate, winter skate), aftenpaafugleoeje (eyed hawk moth). (various references) | |
Dutch | winterrog (big skate, eyed skate, winter skate), pauwoogpijlstaart (eyed hawk moth), avondpauwoog (eyed hawk moth). (various references) | |
Finnish | tarkkanäköinen (discerning, sharp- eyed), täplärausku (big skate, eyed skate, winter skate), sinisilmäkiitäjä (eyed hawk moth), avosilmin (open-eyed, with open eyes). (various references) | |
French | ingénu (starry eyed), éberlué (starry eyed), ébloui (starry eyed), aux yeux secs (dry eyed), aux yeux vairons (wall eyed), avoir un œil qui louche (be cross eyed), béant d'étonnement (open eyed astonishment), à l'œil sec (dry eyed), idéaliste (starry eyed), raie ocellée (eyed skate), innocent (starry eyed), loucher (be cross eyed), loucheur (crossed eyed person), penché (cock eyed), qui louche (cock eyed, wall eyed), rêveur (starry eyed), borgne (one eyed). (various references) | |
German | mit ösen versehen. (various references) | |
Greek | χειμωνιάτικη ράσα (big skate, eyed skate, winter skate), χειμωνιάτικος βάτος (big skate, eyed skate, winter skate), χειμωνιάτικο σελάχι (big skate, eyed skate, winter skate), αλλήθωροσ (cross-eyed, squint eyed). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מפוכח (abstinent, clear eyed, hardheaded, realistic, sober minded), לפזול (be cross eyed, leer, squint), לא בוכה (dry eyed), תמים ונלהב (starry eyed), פוזלני (squint eyed), פוזל (cock eyed, crosseyed, skew eyed, squinting). (various references) | |
Hungarian | egyszemû (one eyed), részeg (be in liquor, blind, blind drunk, boiled, bosky, drunk, frog's march, fuddled, have been in the sun, have the sun in one's eyes, laced, lit-up, loaded, lush, lushy, overtaken in drink, overtaken with drink, pickled, pie-eyed, pissed, plastered, tanked, tiddly, tipsy, to be blitzed out, to be bust, to be busted, to be hot, to be phazed, to be up the pole, to be way-out, to be zipped, to be zonked out, woozy), kancsal (be cross eyed, boss-eyed, cock eyed, cockeyed, cross-eyed, skew eyed, squint, squint eyed, swivel-eyed), közömbös (cool, dry eyed, impassible, impassive, incurious, indifferent, inert, lackadaisical, listless, lukewarm, neglectful, neutral, third party, third person), idealista (idealist, idealistic, starry eyed, starry-eyed), ferde (aslope, awry, beveled, bias, biased, biassed, cant, cock eyed, cockeyed, cross, leaning, oblique, out of the straigh, perverse, sideling, sidelong, skew, slant, slanting, splay), csillagszemû (starry eyed). (various references) | |
Indonesian | dengan mata melotot (open eyed), celi (careful precise, keen, sharp eyed), berbintang-bintang (see the star, shine through, starry, starry eyed), belalakan (wide eyed stare). (various references) | |
Italian | sfinge dagli occhi (eyed hawk moth), razza occhiata (big skate, eyed skate, winter skate), razza (breed, ilk, kind, race, Ray, skate, sort, stock, strain), occhioni (saucer eyed), guercio (one eyed, squinter). (various references) | |
Manx | towlit (bored, broached, drilled), sooillagh (eyelike, ocular). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eyeday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | raia inverneira (big skate, eyed skate, winter skate). (various references) | |
Romanian | cu ochii. (various references) | |
Russian | косоглазый (cock eyed, cockeyed, cross-eyed, skew eyed, skew-eyed, squint, squinter), косой (bevel, cock eyed, cock-eye, cross-eyed, leer, oblique, sidelong, skew, slantindicular, slanting, slantingdicular, splay, squinteyed, squint-eyed, thwart, walleyed). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zrikav (be cross eyed, cross-eyed, goggle, squint), razrok (cock eyed, cross-eyed, skew eyed, squint, squinteyed, swivel-eyed), pijan (cock eyed, cockeye, crocked, drunk, groggy, inebriate, inebriated, loaded, potted, smashed, sottish, soused, sozzled, stewed, stinking, stoned), naivan (artless, dupable, ingenuous, naďve, naif, starry eyed), jednook (monocular, one eyed, single-eyed), budalast (addle-brained, addle-pate, cock eyed, cockeye, daffy, dippy, dopey, dopy, foolish, half-witted, idleheaded, infatuated, nitwitted), biti razrok (be cross eyed). (various references) | |
Spanish | bizco (boss-eyed, cock eyed, cockeye, cross-eyed, skew eyed, squint eyed, squinting). (various references) | |
Swedish | skelögd (cockeyed, cross-eyed, squint eyed, walleyed). (various references) | |
Turkish | gözlü. (various references) | |
Turkmen | яeser gцzler (shifty eyed). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | кривоокий (wall eyed), косоокий (cock eyed, cockeyed, cross-eyed, skew eyed, squint, squint eyed, squinting, swivel-eyed, wall eyed), косий (askew, awry, bevel, boss-eyed, cock eyed, cockeyed, cross-eyed, diagonal, oblique, sidelong, sideway, sideways, sidewise, skew, slant, slanting, splay), важкий (arduous, awkward, baffling, chargeable, complex, difficult, hard, heavy, heavyweight, laborious, leaden, muggy, near, opulent, ponderous, robust, sweaty, toilful, toilsome, trying, wall eyed, walloping, weighty), вирячкуватий (wall eyed, wide-eyed), одноокий (monocular, one eyed), мрійливий (lackadaisical, museful, starry eyed), з більмом на оці (wall eyed), без сліз (dry eyed, tearless), п'яний (banged, blind drunk, boiled, boozy, canned, disguised, drunk, drunken, groggy, inebriate, intoxicate, lush, malty, noggy, pickled, pie-eyed, pizz, plastered, raddled, screwed, sodden, soused, sozzled, sozzly, under the table, vinous, wall eyed, wet, winy, woozy, zigzag). (various references) | |
Welsh | llygeidiog, llygadog (sharp-eyed). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Genesis Chapter 29, Verse 17 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Oi de ofqalmoi leiaV asqeneiV rachl de kalh tw eidei kai wraia th oyei |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Sed Lia lippis erat oculis Rahel decora facie et venusto aspectu |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | But Lya was with blerid eyen, Rachel fayr in face, and with seemly biholdynge. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Lea was tender eyed: But Rahel was bewtifull ad well fauored. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Leah was tender eyed; but Rachel was beautiful and well favored. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Leah was tender-eyed, but Rachel was beautiful and well-favored. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And Leah's eyes were clouded, but Rachel was fair in face and form. |
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| Language | Genesis Chapter 29, Verse 17 |
| Cebuano | Ug ang mga mata ni Lea malomo man; apan si Raquel maanyag ug madanihon. |
| Croatian | Lea imala slabe oèi, a Rahela bila stasita i lijepa. |
| Danish | Leas Øjne var matte, men Rakel havde en dejlig Skikkelse og så dejlig ud, |
| Dutch | Doch Lea had tedere ogen; maar Rachel was schoon van gedaante, en schoon van aangezicht. |
| Finnish | Ja Leealla oli sameat silmät, mutta Raakelilla oli kaunis vartalo ja kauniit kasvot. |
| French | Léa avait les yeux délicats; mais Rachel était belle de taille et belle de figure. |
| German | Aber Lea hatte ein blödes Gesicht, Rahel war hübsch und schön. |
| Hungarian | Leának pedig gyenge szemei valának, de Rákhel szép termetû és szép tekintetû vala. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Lea matanya indah, sedangkan Rahel bertubuh molek dan berwajah cantik. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka Lea itu bermata biuku, tetapi Rakhel itu elok parasnya dan cantik sikapnya. |
| Italian | Lia aveva gli occhi smorti, mentre Rachele era bella di forme e avvenente di aspetto, |
| Maori | He papahewa nga kanohi o Rea; he mea ahuareka ia a Rahera, he ataahua hoki ki te titiro atu. |
| Norwegian | Lea hadde matte øine; men Rakel var vakker av skapning og vakker å se til. |
| Portuguese | Léia tinha os olhos enfermos, enquanto que Raquel era formosa de porte e de semblante. |
| Rumanian | Lea avea ochii slabi; dar Rahela era frumoasq la staturq wi mkndrq la fayq. |
| Russian | мЙС ВЩМБ УМБВБ ЗМБЪБНЙ, Б тБИЙМШ ВЩМБ ЛТБУЙЧБ УФБОПН Й ЛТБУЙЧБ МЙГЕН. |
| Spanish | Los ojos de Lea eran tiernos, pero Raquel tenía una bella figura y un hermoso semblante. |
| Swedish | Och Leas ögon voro matta, men Rakel hade en skön gestalt och var skön att skåda. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "eyed": eyedness, eyednesses, eyedropper, eyedroppers, eyedrops. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "eyed": blarneyed, bogeyed, boogeyed, cockeyed, conveyed, cooeyed, curtseyed, disobeyed, fleyed, frogeyed, gleyed, greyed, hackneyed, hawkeyed, honeyed, jerseyed, jockeyed, journeyed, keyed, lackeyed, lacqueyed, moneyed, monkeyed, moseyed, obeyed, parleyed, parsleyed, phoneyed, popeyed, preyed, purveyed, reconveyed, rekeyed, resurveyed, shinneyed, storeyed, surveyed, tourneyed, trolleyed, unhackneyed, volleyed, walleyed. (additional references) | |
Words containing "eyed": cockeyedly, cockeyedness, cockeyednesses. (additional references) | |
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"Eyed" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ayed, eded, edey, Eed, efed, eid, eide, eized, Eled, Eleod, emed, Emyard, ened, eted, eved, ewed, exed, exeed, Eya, Eyal, eyam, Eybe, eyeh, eyel, eyeo, Eyer, eyeu, Eyi, eyie, eyir, eyke, Eyken, Eyler, eyne, eyo, Eyob, Eype, ezed, geyed, leyed, neyed, oeyed, oyed, reyed, seyde, seyyids, teyed, yed, Ysd. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "eyed" (pronounced ī"d) |
| 2 | ī" d | abide, allied, alongside, applied, aside, astride, belied, beside, betide, bide, bride, chide, coincide, collide, complied, confide, cried, decide, decried, defied, denied, deride, died, lied, divide, dried, dyed, Eide, flied, fried, glide, guide, hide, implied, inside, misapplied, misguide, nationwide, outside, oversupplied, pied, plied, preside, pride, pried, provide, relied, replied, reside, retried, ride, shied, side, sighed, slide, snide, spied, Stateside, stride, subdivide, subside, supplied, tide, tied, tried, untied, untried, upside, vide, vied, wide, worldwide. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-y" | |
-1 letter: dee, dey, dye, eye. | |
-2 letters: de, ed, ye. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-y" | |
+1 letter: debye, deedy, emyde, keyed, needy, redye, reedy, seedy, weedy. | |
+2 letters: debyes, deejay, deeply, emydes, eyelid, fleyed, gleyed, greedy, greyed, heydey, medley, obeyed, preyed, redefy, redeny, redeye, redyed, redyes, remedy, speedy, tweedy, yeaned, yelled, yelped, yenned, yerked, yessed, yeuked. | |
+3 letters: beeyard, belayed, bogeyed, cooeyed, deadeye, deanery, decayed, decayer, decency, decoyed, decoyer, deejays, deerfly, delayed, delayer, densely, dovekey, doyenne, dyeable, dyeweed, ecdyses, elderly, embayed, enjoyed, enskyed, epoxyed, essayed, eyelids, fedayee, geodesy, goldeye, hayseed, heydeys, honeyed, layered, mayweed, medleys, moneyed, moseyed, needily, overdye, pedlery, popeyed, redeyes, reedify, reedily, rekeyed, relayed, retyped, seedily, vexedly, weedily, weekday, ycleped, yearend, yearned, yeasted, yielded, yielder, yodeled, yodeler. | |
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