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KEEN-EYED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does keen-eyed mean?
• KEEN-EYED (adjective)
The adjective KEEN-EYED has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: KEEN-EYED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having keen eyesight
Synonyms:
keen-eyed; sharp-eyed
Similar:
eyed (having an eye or eyes or eyelike feature especially as specified; often used in combination)
Context examples
Before NASA's New Horizons spacecraft visited it in 2015, the largest of the dwarf planets had appeared as little more than a fuzzy blob, even to the keen-eyed Hubble Space Telescope.
(2007 OR10: Largest Unnamed World in the Solar System, NASA)
I think (with deference be it spoken) the contrast could not be much greater between a sleek gander and a fierce falcon: between a meek sheep and the rough-coated keen-eyed dog, its guardian.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
You could not walk the streets without catching sight of the gipsy-faced, keen-eyed men whose plain clothes told of their thin purses as plainly as their listless air showed their weariness of a life of forced and unaccustomed inaction.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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