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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:

1. having keen eyesightplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


KEEN-EYED (adjective)


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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