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WILD-EYED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does wild-eyed mean?
• WILD-EYED (adjective)
The adjective WILD-EYED has 2 senses:
1. appearing extremely agitated
2. not sensible about practical matters; idealistic and unrealistic
Familiarity information: WILD-EYED used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Appearing extremely agitated
Context example:
crowded the wild-eyed animals into a truck
Similar:
agitated (troubled emotionally and usually deeply)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Not sensible about practical matters; idealistic and unrealistic
Synonyms:
Context example:
a wild-eyed dream of a world state
Similar:
impractical (not practical; not workable or not given to practical matters)
Context examples
Now he was pale and wild-eyed, gasping as he breathed like one who has run far and fast.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He looked wild-eyed and haggard, and I greatly fear his reason has given way.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
The cub reporter was an artist, and it was a large brush with which he laid on the local color—wild-eyed long-haired men, neurasthenic and degenerate types of men, voices shaken with passion, clenched fists raised on high, and all projected against a background of oaths, yells, and the throaty rumbling of angry men.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
As it opened there came a tumultuous rush into the hall, rapid feet clattered up the stair, and an instant later a wild-eyed and frantic young man, pale, disheveled, and palpitating, burst into the room.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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