HOLLOW-EYED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hollow-eyed mean? 

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

1. characteristic of the bony face of a cadaver

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• HOLLOW-EYED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Characteristic of the bony face of a cadaver

Synonyms:

deep-eyed; hollow-eyed; sunken-eyed

Similar:

lean; thin (lacking excess flesh)

 Context examples 

He was in his dressing-gown, but his pale, hollow-eyed face told me that his night had been a sleepless one.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Her lips were blue with cold, and she was hollow-eyed—but oh, how bravely her brown eyes looked at me!

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

There was wailing in the village, where the women and children went without in order that what little they had might go into the bellies of the lean and hollow-eyed hunters who trod the forest in the vain pursuit of meat.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Tom threw on both brakes impatiently and we slid to an abrupt dusty stop under Wilson's sign. After a moment the proprietor emerged from the interior of his establishment and gazed hollow-eyed at the car.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)