Dictionary

dark-eyed en · ADJ

Meanings

1. Having dark eyes.
   • He was a Demon: the darkest-eyed, most dangerous type of Ashkind, historically the most violent and insidious and prone to political dissent, who had to be watched by the Department very carefully lest they rebel against the Government. 2015, Helena Coggan, chapter 6, in The Catalyst, London: Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN, pages 70–71:
   • He smiled, remembering the morning when Esteban and Gregorio, two of his darkest-eyed, blackest-haired and most sunburnt men, had come to him with a daring plan that he’d immediately sanctioned. 2017, Graham Hancock, “Friday 27 May 1520–Saturday 28 May 1520”, in Night of Sorrows (War God; 3), London: Coronet, →ISBN, page 293:
   • The dark-haired, darker-eyed Fraulein sat more or less alone in her schoolroom, giving guttural orders that we all found very funny. 1983, Elsa Lanchester, chapter 3, in Elsa Lanchester, Herself, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN, page 29:

Forms

Deriveds

dark-eyed junco

Relateds

darkeye

Translations (6)

nb mørkøyd (having dark eyes) · nn mørkøygd (having dark eyes) · da mørkøjet (having dark eyes) · sv mörkögd (having dark eyes) · pl ciemnooki (having dark eyes) · lt tamsiaãkis (having dark eyes)