red-eyed

English

Adjective

red-eyed (comparative more red-eyed, superlative most red-eyed)

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see red,‎ eyed.
2. Having the eyelids reddened, e.g. by tears or lack of sleep.

   They were very red-eyed after playing video-games for 72 hours straight.

   • 1914 November, Louis Joseph Vance, “An Outsider […]”, in Munsey’s Magazine, volume LIII, number II, New York, N.Y.: The Frank A[ndrew] Munsey Company, […], published 1915, →OCLC, chapter III (Accessory After the Fact), page 382, column 2:

     She was frankly disappointed. For some reason she had expected to discover a burglar of one or another accepted type—either a dashing cracksman in full-blown evening dress, lithe, polished, pantherish, or a common yegg, a red-eyed, unshaven, burly brute in the rags and tatters of a tramp.

3. (of a person in a photograph) Having the pupils appearing red due to reflection off the blood vessels in the eye.

Derived terms

• red-eyed bream (Lepomis gulosus)
• red-eyed coqui (Eleutherodactylus antillensis)
• red-eyed dove (Streptopelia semitorquata)
• red-eyed frog
• red-eyed pochard (Aythya ferina)
• red-eyed puffback (Dryoscopus senegalensis)
• red-eyed stream frog (Duellmanohyla uranochroa)
• red-eyed tree frog (Agalychnis callidryas, Litoria chloris)
• red-eyed vireo (Vireo olivaceus)

References

• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “red-eyed”, in The Compact Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, volumes II (P–Z, Supplement and Bibliography), Oxford: Clarendon Press, published 1991, →ISBN, page 1535/414.