eyed

Having eyes of the colour, appearance, or number mentioned, usually as part of a longer adjective.

• A brown-eyed boy opened the door.
• The children listened with wide-eyed wonder.
• She drew a three-eyed monster in her notebook.

How to use it: colour/description/number + -eyed (A green-eyed cat watched us from the window.)

Common phrases: blue eyed child, wide eyed wonder, one eyed cat

Having eyes, rather than being without them.

• This is an eyed species.
• The study compared eyed fish with blind cave fish.
• Eyed animals can detect changes in light.

Opposites: eyeless

Common phrases: eyed fish, eyed species, eyed animals

Having spots that look like eyes, usually on an animal's body or wings.

• The moth has eyed wings.
• Its eyed markings may frighten hungry birds.
• We photographed an eyed butterfly resting on a leaf.

Similar words: eye-spotted

Common phrases: eyed wings, eyed pattern, eyed moth