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blue-eyed

blue-eyed

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A person with blue eyes
  • adjective
  • /bluː aɪd/
translation icon : de ojos azules
  • Genetics 101, a blue-eyed mother and a blue-eyed father always make a blue-eyed child.
  • blonde, blue-eyed

The soldiers were blue eyed and kept their natural complexion.

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Examples

  • The artist painted a portrait of a blue-eyed girl gazing dreamily into the distance.

  • Then a boy, golden haired, blue eyed, looked away from his teacher and towards the window.

  • It's like how many people get born with blue eyes or black hair.

  • Just turns out that he was the only witness in our case who was white, who had blue eyes and fair hair.

  • The nurse told me I have very blue eyes, which is very nice.

  • So did you know that every single person with blue eyes is technically related?

  • But when I looked up at her, I saw my blue-eyed face, my brother's face.

    Fiction book (1996)
  • So people don't recognize your blue eyes, your pretty blue eyes.

  • So many blues to match the color of her father's eyes, the only blue-eyed ones in the family.

    Fiction book (1991)
  • And what'll you do now, my blue-eyed son?

Surface Forms

blue-eyed positive

Morphology

blue-eyed = blue + eye (transparent) = blue + eye + ed

The adjective is a literal compound of 'blue' + 'eye' with adjectival '-ed', so the meaning 'having blue-coloured eyes' follows directly.

Etymology

Blue-eyed is made from the simple parts blue and eye, which mean 'the color blue' and 'the eye'. So blue-eyed simply means having eyes that are blue.