big-eyed
/bˈɪɡˌaɪd/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.95 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "It doesn’t matter to the little children if there aren’t as many baby farm animals as there were last year. They turn their attention to the few, more big-eyed than calves and just as playful as twin lambs."
- "His obsessive motif is a gnomish little figure — derived from Picasso out of Etruscan and more archaic art — of a man whose big-eyed, helmet-shaped head rides his legs without benefit of torso."
- "The long-tailed, orange-furred, big-eyed olinguito — said to resemble a cross between a house cat and a teddy bear — is the newest mammal and the first carnivore discovered in the Americas in 35 years, the Smithsonian Institution announced Thursday."
- "“You know what? Fine. I’m going to give them the cutest, furriest, biggest-eyed, and babiest-faced mammal on the planet, and then I’m going to make it chomp venomous desert vipers to death. How about that?” “Yeah, they’re still going to think it’s cute.”"
- "The animation, with big-eyed character designs from the illustrator Mona Chalabi, at times literalizes Rumi’s anxiety and at others allows the story to take absurd detours."
Inflected Forms
more big-eyed (comparative)
bigger-eyed (comparative)
most big-eyed (superlative)
biggest-eyed (superlative)
bigeyed (alternative)