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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

wild-eyed en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. Having a glaring expression suggesting madness or terror.
    • A better study it seems to me could be about why some heteros are so wild-eyed obsessed with us, their hate, the kind of leaders they choose to follow in their greed and prejudice, and their need for someone to persecute. 1989 December 10, Zane Gilstrap, “Speculations About Why We're Gay”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 22, page 5:
    • In the mirror a wild-eyed, peroxided stranger who had clearly gone insane stared back at me. 2004, Scott Westerfeld, So yesterday:
    • “Wild-eyed and disheveled, King Hrethel roamed every night through his throne room, which was empty and still.” 1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 43:

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more wild-eyed Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most wild-eyed Degree=Sup lexicographic