Difference between Wide and Wide-eyed

What is the difference between Wide and Wide-eyed?

Wide as an adjective is having a large physical extent from side to side. while Wide-eyed as an adjective is astonished or surprised.

Wide

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Having a large physical extent from side to side. Large in scope. Operating at the side of the playing area.

Part of speech: adverb

Definition: extensively completely away from a given goal

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A ball that passes so far from the batsman that the umpire deems it unplayable; the arm signal used by an umpire to signal a wide; the extra run added to the batting side's score

Example sentence: My eyes are constantly wide open to the extraordinary fact of existence. Not just human existence, but the existence of life and how this breathtakingly powerful process, which is natural selection, has managed to take the very simple facts of physics and chemistry and build them up to redwood trees and humans.

Wide-eyed

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Astonished or surprised.

We hope you now know whether to use Wide or Wide-eyed in your sentence.

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