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What is "dewy-eyed"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
dewy-eyed
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Not half an hour back I had been dewy-eyed with nostalgia for him.
Wiktionary
dewy-eyed

a. 1 Having eyes with a moist, glistening appearance, especially as indicating that one is on the verge of crying or that one is experiencing strong emotions. 2 (context figuratively English) naive or innocent in the manner of a child. 3 Excessively nostalgic.

WordNet
dewy-eyed

adj. exhibiting childlike simplicity and credulity; "childlike trust"; "dewy-eyed innocence"; "simple courtesy" [syn: childlike, wide-eyed, simple]

Usage examples of "dewy-eyed".

Faced with the kind of literature on the subject of Catharism that is found in many Languedocian tourist shops, one might be forgiven for thinking that it was a sort of dewy-eyed New Age religion with a clear-cut, simplistic theology.