wild-eyed
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8.0
- adjective
- /ˈwaɪld aɪd/
:
idealista
- His wild-eyed plans for changing the world seemed impossible to everyone around him.
Examples
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She had a wild-eyed vision of a future where everyone lived in harmony without conflict.
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"What you ought to do," I suggested, "is think of the killer more as a confidence man than a wild-eyed assassin."
Fiction book (1994) -
Yet they were hardly wild-eyed fanatics.
Fiction book (1990) -
Nathan's perspective seemed alarmist, wild-eyed, and irrational.
Fiction book (2002) -
I feel someone famous or interesting has walked these same streets, a great artist with a unique and passionate vision, or a wild-eyed revolutionary, or a romantic like Sydney Carton who redeemed everything with the ultimate love.
Fiction book (1990) -
The wild-eyed inventor believed his radical ideas would revolutionize technology.
Synonyms
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3.5
Very enthusiastic or excited, often in a way that seems unreasonable
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4.1
Having ideas that are too hopeful and not practical
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4.2
Risky or not likely to work
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8.5
An idea or plan that is very foolish and not well thought out
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9.6
A person who has very unrealistic plans that are unlikely to work
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6.9
Being too hopeful and not seeing real problems
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8.9
A foolish idea or plan that will not work
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5.3
Having goals that are too high to reach
Wanting very great success that is unlikely to happen
Antonyms
How Extreme
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Wild-eyed uses wild ('not controlled' or 'extreme') with eye to give the sense of something untamed or over-strong in thought. So a wild-eyed plan is 'unrealistic' or too extreme to be practical.