Meaning

Having large eyes..

Example Sentences

It doesn’t matter to the little children if there aren’t as many baby farm animals as there were last year. They turn their attention to the few, more big-eyed than calves and just as playful as twin lambs.

His obsessive motif is a gnomish little figure — derived from Picasso out of Etruscan and more archaic art — of a man whose big-eyed, helmet-shaped head rides his legs without benefit of torso.

The long-tailed, orange-furred, big-eyed olinguito — said to resemble a cross between a house cat and a teddy bear — is the newest mammal and the first carnivore discovered in the Americas in 35 years, the Smithsonian Institution announced Thursday.

“You know what? Fine. I’m going to give them the cutest, furriest, biggest-eyed, and babiest-faced mammal on the planet, and then I’m going to make it chomp venomous desert vipers to death. How about that?” “Yeah, they’re still going to think it’s cute.”

The animation, with big-eyed character designs from the illustrator Mona Chalabi, at times literalizes Rumi’s anxiety and at others allows the story to take absurd detours.

Word Forms

• more big-eyed
• bigger-eyed
• most big-eyed
• biggest-eyed
• bigeyed

When Should You Use Big-eyed?

Use big-eyed when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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