hollow-eyed

/'hɔlouaid/

Thân thiện

A tired student looks hollow-eyed after studying all night.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Having eyes that appear deeply sunken or recessed: Describes a person whose eyes look deeply set into their face, often due to fatigue, illness, or extreme thinness, creating a shadowed or gaunt appearance.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • After three sleepless nights, he looked hollow-eyed and exhausted.
  • The illness left her hollow-eyed and pale.
  • The portrait captured the subject's hollow-eyed gaze, full of sorrow.

Advanced Usage

• Descriptive Use: Often used in literary or descriptive contexts to evoke a vivid image of someone's worn, tired, or ill appearance.
  • The refugees, hollow-eyed from hunger and fear, waited in line for aid.

Variants and Related Words

• Sunken-eyed (adj): Similar in meaning, describing eyes that appear recessed.
  • He was sunken-eyed after the long journey.
• Gaunt (adj): Very thin, especially from illness or hunger, often implying a hollow-eyed look.
  • His face was gaunt and hollow-eyed.

Synonyms

• Deep-set: (of eyes) positioned far back in the face.
• Gaunt: Extremely thin and bony.
• Wan: Pale and giving the impression of illness or exhaustion.

Antonyms

• Bright-eyed: Having eyes that are lively and alert.
• Rosy-cheeked: Having healthy, pink cheeks; looking healthy and vigorous.

Related Phrases and Idioms

• To have hollows under one's eyes: A descriptive phrase meaning to have dark, sunken areas below the eyes.
  • The stress of the exam gave her hollows under her eyes.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. characteristic of the bony face of a cadaver

Từ đồng nghĩa

• deep-eyed
• sunken-eyed