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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
dry-eyed
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Going about her daily routine, Wilson was dry-eyed, as she knew Mrs Browning would be for a while yet.
▪ In the first car Sarah sat dry-eyed, staring out at the passing roads.
▪ Julia, stunned but dry-eyed, had given her statement to the police.
▪ She sat dry-eyed for what felt like hours, then she had a long bath and washed her hair.
▪ She was dry-eyed but her expression just faintly betrayed a struggle against the pain of her injury.
▪ They emerged dry-eyed but also with a dry heart.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dry-eyed

Dry-eyed \Dry"-eyed`\, a. Not having tears in the eyes. Opposite of tearful.

Syn: tearless.

Wiktionary
dry-eyed

a. Not having shed tears. Sometimes implies "not made sad (by something)".

WordNet
dry-eyed

adj. free from tears [syn: tearless] [ant: tearful]

Usage examples of "dry-eyed".

He says I was dry-eyed, but my small brows knit, as if puzzling over something, though this ended after I picked up my mother's mirror, which being made of Arkan glass threw perfect reflections.

Of the children women will never bear, a dry-eyed consort too bereft to cry, a mother who will see her sons but die, a consorting suit that never will be worn these weapons of the forgotten and forlorn pierce bright cupridium and chaos fire, flaming honor to ashes of desire.

And when his favorite grandmother died, a dry-eyed Doniger informed his mother that the old lady still owed him twenty-seven dollars, and he expected her to make good on it.

It was a feeble joke, but it saved him, and he was able to take his leave of her dry-eyed, saddle up Roan, and ride off down the path to the road.