dewy-eyed

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dewy-eyed

A young child watches a magician with dewy-eyed wonder.

Definition
  1. Adjective:
    • Exhibiting childlike simplicity and credulity: The term describes someone who is innocently trusting, naive, or idealistic, often in a way that overlooks reality or complexity. It suggests a pure, uncritical, and often sentimental outlook.
Usage Examples
  • Adjective:
    • She was still dewy-eyed about love, believing every story had a happy ending.
    • The politician's dewy-eyed promises failed to convince the experienced voters.
    • He listened to the old sailor's tales with dewy-eyed wonder.
Advanced Usage

  • "dewy-eyed optimism": An outlook characterized by an innocent and often unrealistic hopefulness.

    • His dewy-eyed optimism about the project's ease was quickly dispelled.

  • "dewy-eyed nostalgia": A sentimental longing for the past viewed through a lens of innocent, uncritical affection.

    • The memoir was written not with bitterness, but with a kind of dewy-eyed nostalgia.
Variants and Related Words
  • Star-eyed (adj): Having a dreamy, idealistic, or romantically hopeful expression or attitude.
  • Wide-eyed (adj): Marked by uncritical acceptance, amazement, or innocence. (Note: Often used similarly but can imply surprise more than sentimentality).
Synonyms
  • Naive: Showing a lack of experience, wisdom, or judgment.
  • Credulous: Having too great a readiness to believe things.
  • Idealistic: Characterized by idealism; unrealistically aiming for perfection.
  • Innocent: Lacking guile or worldly experience; pure.
Antonyms
  • Cynical: Believing that people are motivated purely by self-interest; distrustful.
  • Skeptical: Not easily convinced; having doubts.
  • Worldly-wise: Experienced and knowledgeable about the practical aspects of life.
  • Jaded: Bored or lacking enthusiasm after having had too much of something.
Related Idioms and Phrases
  • "Look at the world through rose-colored glasses": To see things in an overly optimistic, idealistic, or uncritical way. This is a close conceptual synonym for having a dewy-eyed perspective.
    • You can't run a business if you look at the world through rose-colored glasses.
dewy-eyed

A young child watches a magician with dewy-eyed wonder.

Adjective
  1. exhibiting childlike simplicity and credulity
    • childlike trust
    • dewy-eyed innocence
    • listened in round-eyed wonder

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