red-eyed
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.94 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Having the eyelids reddened, e.g. by tears or lack of sleep.
adj
Of a person, having the pupils appearing in a red color due to a reflection off the blood vessels in the eye.
adj
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see red, eyed.
verb
simple past and past participle of red-eye
Example Sentences
- "They were very red-eyed after playing video-games for 72 hours straight."
- "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."
Inflected Forms
more red-eyed (comparative)
most red-eyed (superlative)
Phrases
red-eyed bream
red-eyed coqui
red-eyed dove
red-eyed frog
red-eyed pochard
red-eyed puffback
red-eyed stream frog
red-eyed tree frog