Dictionary

dead-eyed en · ADJ

Meanings

1. Having eyes that lack emotion or seem vacant.
   • […]they do not explain the incredible pathos of Paul Anthony Heaven reading his lecture to a crowd of dead-eyed kids picking at themselves and drawing vacant airplane- and genitalia-doodles on their college-rule note-pads, […] 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 911:
   • With a staggering walk, ragged clothes, and a terrifying dead-eyed stare, the zombie is an instantly recognizable monster of the big screen. 2013, Janos Jantner, Drawing Horror-Movie Monsters, The Rosen Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 18:
   • The dead-eyed man regarded me without the slightest change of expression. 2011, Joe Schreiber, Au Revoir, Crazy European Chick, Houghton Mifflin, →ISBN, pages 132–133:
   • The prisoners watched me from inside their cells, watched dead-eyed and silent as I was dragged past. 2011, Andrew Klavan, The Final Hour, Thomas Nelson, →ISBN, page 20:

Forms

Coordinates

fish-eyed · glassy-eyed

Relateds

thousand-yard stare