deep-eyed
Definition
- Adjective:
- Having eyes that appear sunken or recessed: "deep-eyed" describes a person whose eyes are set deeply into their face, often creating a hollow or shadowed appearance around the eye sockets.
- Characteristic of the bony face of a cadaver: This more specific and literary usage describes a face that is gaunt, hollow-cheeked, and pale, with deeply set eyes, resembling the appearance of a corpse or someone who is extremely emaciated, exhausted, or ill.
Usage Examples
- Adjective:
- After weeks of sleepless nights, he looked deep-eyed and weary.
- The portrait captured her deep-eyed, melancholic beauty.
- The prisoner emerged from his cell, deep-eyed and pale from malnutrition.
Advanced Usage
- Descriptive and Literary: "Deep-eyed" is primarily used in descriptive writing, literature, or formal speech to evoke a strong visual image of exhaustion, illness, age, or intense emotion (like sorrow or concentration). It is not typically used in casual, everyday conversation.
- The deep-eyed prophet spoke of visions that haunted his sleep.
Variants and Related Words
- Hollow-eyed (adj): Similar to "deep-eyed," emphasizing sunken eyes, often due to tiredness or sickness.
- She was hollow-eyed after caring for the newborn.
- Sunken-eyed (adj): Virtually synonymous with "deep-eyed."
- Gaunt (adj): Very thin, especially from hunger, illness, or age; a "gaunt" face is often also "deep-eyed."
- Cadaverous (adj): Resembling a corpse in being very pale, thin, and bony; this is the direct adjectival form related to the "cadaver" reference in the definition.
Synonyms
- Hollow-eyed
- Sunken-eyed
- Gaunt (in the context of facial features)
Related Phrases
- With eyes sunk deep in their sockets: A descriptive phrase with a similar meaning.
- He stared at me with eyes sunk deep in their sockets.
Adjective
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characteristic of the bony face of a cadaver
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