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eyeworthy en · ADJ

Etymology

From eye + -worthy. Compare earworthy.

Meanings

1. Worthy to be looked at or seen.
   • It's always the way that somebody who's eyeworthy, who has stage presence, will go down better with the audience than someone who doesn't know how to sell themselves. 1984, Brian Priestley, Mingus, a Critical Biography:
   • And the best part is that after you have completed your boat, you will know it is seaworthy as well as eyeworthy. 1957 Apr, Popular Mechanics:
   • Anyway, this friend of hers, Beryl, works for Sotterton's, and she says the designer who's actually doing the penthouse is someone called Charlotte Anstruther. Sloaney-type, ex-public school. Tall, blonde, fairly eye-worthy, apparently. 2012, Cynthia Harrod-Eagles, Country Plot:
   • Next to him was a sleek, thin man in a black turtleneck sweater and dark pants; he had a GQ look going on, and under other circumstances I might have thought he was eye-worthy, but not now. 2016, Rachel Caine, Midnight Bites: Stories of the Morganville Vampires:

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