Definition of Starry-eyed

1. Adjective. Unrealistically or naively optimistic. "Starry-eyed idealism"

Similar to: Optimistic

Definition of Starry-eyed

1. Adjective. Describing one who has naïvely optimistic hopes or outlooks. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Starry-eyed

starports
starproof
starquake
starquakes
starred
starrier
starriest
starrily
starriness
starrinesses
starring
starring(p)
starrings
starrs
starry
starry-eyed (current term)
starry saxifrage
starry sturgeon
stars
stars in one's eyes
starscape
starscapes
starshade
starshades
starshine
starship
starships
starspot
starspots
starstone

Literary usage of Starry-eyed

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Renewing the United Nations System by Erskine Childers (1999)
"A British Foreign Secretary whom no one ever called starry-eyed urged study of it even as the UN was being born. Ernest Bevin's 1945 statement in the House ..."

2. His Great Adventure by Robert Herrick (1913)
"It was bound like a "best seller" in a gaudy red cloth, and a picture of a starry- eyed maiden with floating hair adorned the cover. ..."

3. Orpheus by George Robert Stow Mead (1896)
"In Hymn XXXIV, Apollo is said to " fix his roots beyond the starry-eyed darkness. ... For this " starry-eyed darkness" is the sphere of the fixed stars, ..."

4. The Theosophical Review by Theosophical Publishing Society (London, England) (1896)
"In Hymn XXXIV, Apollo is said to "fix his roots beyond the starry-eyed darkness." Now Apollo, the Sun, ... For this " starry-eyed darkness " is the sphere ..."

5. Glimpses of Fifty Years: The Autobiography of an American Woman by Frances Elizabeth Willard (1889)
"The creature comforts duly attended to—and who forgets them ? even long-haired artists, and starry-eyed poets confessing their indolent sway— we engage ..."

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