eye-to-eye
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.72 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
6
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
Facing the person under discussion.
Example Sentences
- "So in time Mother learned to perceive me through the mirror. Even to smile at me. (Not eye-to-eye! Never.)"
- "There seemed to be a tacit understanding that the prisoners and the unit supervisor should not look at one another...at least not eye-to-eye."
- "But it does find these two adversaries speaking face to face, if not eye to eye, about the kinds of labor issues that don't often make it to the multiplex."