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Unduly optimistic son to stay and watch daughter
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starry-eyed
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Word definitions for starry-eyed in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Describing one who has naïvely optimistic hopes or outlooks.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ starry-eyed young actresses EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ And that is exactly what all you starry-eyed guys do, that get married young. ▪ First shown on Yorkshire Television, it's now our turn to let the starry-eyed host ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. unrealistically or naively optimistic; "a starry-eyed reformer"; "starry-eyed idealism"
Usage examples of starry-eyed.
It carried them to exotic distant worlds, introduced them to strange alien beings, wowed them with vast supergalactic inteligences, star-spanning empires, time travel -- Big Ideas, in other words, that stretched the boundaries of the imagination, leaving the lucky reader breathless and starry-eyed.
But his underlying reason for accepting the Bushlands' invitation may have been his curiosity about the person who had brunched with Polly at the Palomino Paddock, sending her home late, tired, and starry-eyed.
And half an hour later, mounted on a sturdy mountain pony and lightly provisioned for the dash down the mountains and across the plain to Coroth, Duncan was on his way as well, leaving a starry-eyed young priest to muse on what he had experienced.
Get yourself a decent lawyer so he'll draw up something that will stand up, and get her to sign it, which she most likely will because she'll be so starry-eyed about getting married.
A lone prospector had to sell at market prices, and the price was always far below their starry-eyed dreams.
Anne stood before her, tall and starry-eyed, with her hands full of Mayflowers and violets.
The DM should play up the starry-eyed, romantic aspects of Benedict's nature to pluck at the player characters' heartstrings.