CLEAR-EYED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does clear-eyed mean? 

• CLEAR-EYED (adjective)
  The adjective CLEAR-EYED has 1 sense:

1. mentally acute or penetratingly discerning

  Familiarity information: CLEAR-EYED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CLEAR-EYED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Mentally acute or penetratingly discerning

Synonyms:

clear-eyed; clear-sighted; perspicacious

Context example:

much too perspicacious to be taken in by so spurious an argument

Similar:

discerning (having or revealing keen insight and good judgment)

 Context examples 

You will be clear-eyed, objective, and not prone to rush a new relationship—good thinking.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

I too had been groping and floundering, the while I thought I rode clear-eyed through the mystery.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Tall and sinewy, and brown, clear-eyed, hard-featured, with the stern and prompt bearing of experienced soldiers, it would be hard indeed for a leader to seek for a choicer following.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She learned to look upon danger clear-eyed and with understanding, losing forever that panic fear which is bred of ignorance and which afflicts the city-reared, making them as silly as silly horses, so that they await fate in frozen horror instead of grappling with it, or stampede in blind self-destroying terror which clutters the way with their crushed carcasses.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)