Adjective: saucer-eyed
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more saucer-eyed |
| Superlative | most saucer-eyed |
Sample Sentences
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The village children gaped saucer-eyed at the newcomers. [2009, Philip Reeve, No Such Thing As Dragons, Scholastic, published 2010, →ISBN, page 36:]
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Barlow[…] had just spent the Summer of Love in San Francisco. Having seen waves of saucer-eyed youth wash up in the Haight, and gotten fairly dilated himself, he believed that civilization was “headed over the falls.” [2018 June 14, Chris Jennings, “‘Mother American Night’ Review: The Opening of a Western Mind”, in Wall Street Journal, →ISSN:]
Adjectives inflected like saucer-eyed
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology