DEEP-SET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does deep-set mean? 

• DEEP-SET (adjective)
  The adjective DEEP-SET has 1 sense:

1. having a sunken area

  Familiarity information: DEEP-SET used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEEP-SET (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having a sunken area

Synonyms:

deep-set; recessed; sunken

Context example:

hunger gave their faces a sunken look

Similar:

hollow (not solid; having a space or gap or cavity)

 Context examples 

Further back—all panting together, like the wind in a tree—there stood a group of fierce, wild creatures, bare-armed and bare-legged, gaunt, unshaven, with deep-set murderous eyes and wild beast faces.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He wheeled round upon his stool, with a steaming test-tube in his hand, and a gleam of amusement in his deep-set eyes.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Sir Lothian’s hollow cheeks grew white with passion, and I saw for an instant in his deep-set eyes such a glare as comes from the frenzied hound rearing and ramping at the end of its chain.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Heavily built and massive, there was a suggestion of uncouth physical inertia in the figure, but above this unwieldy frame there was perched a head so masterful in its brow, so alert in its steel-grey, deep-set eyes, so firm in its lips, and so subtle in its play of expression, that after the first glance one forgot the gross body and remembered only the dominant mind.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A large face, seared with a thousand wrinkles, burned yellow with the sun, and marked with every evil passion, was turned from one to the other of us, while his deep-set, bile-shot eyes, and his high, thin, fleshless nose, gave him somewhat the resemblance to a fierce old bird of prey.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“It is a pretty piece of yew, and well strung,” said Johnston with a twinkle in his deep-set gray eyes.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He had lost his listless expression, and again I saw an alert light of interest in his keen, deep-set eyes.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He bethought him, too, as he looked at her set lips and deep-set questioning eyes, that he had heard strange tales of this same Lady Tiphaine du Guesclin.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The Premier sprang to his feet with that quick, fierce gleam of his deep-set eyes before which a Cabinet has cowered.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She might have been five-and-thirty years of age, with aquiline nose, firm yet sensitive mouth, dark curving brows, and deep-set eyes which shone and sparkled with a shifting brilliancy.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)