red-eyed en · ADJ
Meanings
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Having the eyelids reddened, e.g. by tears or lack of sleep.
She was frankly disappointed. For some reason she had expected to discover a burglar of one or another accepted type—either a dashing cracksman in full-blown evening dress, lithe, polished, pantherish, or a common yegg, a red-eyed, unshaven, burly brute in the rags and tatters of a tramp.
1914 November, Louis Joseph Vance, “An Outsider […]”, in Munsey’s Magazine, volume LIII, number II, New York, N.Y.: The Frank A[ndrew] Munsey Company, […], published 1915, →OCLC, chapter III (Accessory After the Fact), page 382, column 2:They were very red-eyed after playing video-games for 72 hours straight.
- Of a person, having the pupils appearing in a red color due to a reflection off the blood vessels in the eye.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see red, eyed.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| most red-eyed | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| more red-eyed | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic |
Deriveds
red-eyed stream frog · red-eyed pochard · red-eyed vireo · red-eyed coqui · red-eyed bream · red-eyed frog · red-eyed puffback · red-eyed dove · red-eyed tree frog