wide-eyed

[ wahyd-ahyd ]

/ ˈwaɪdˌaɪd /

with the eyes open wide, as in amazement, innocence, or sleeplessness.

Origin of wide-eyed

First recorded in 1850–55

His co-captain, Derrik Rose, once detailed, in wide-eyed wonderment, a single meal Joa put away.

The Chicago Bulls’ Joakim Noah Sounds Off on Weed, the Weather, and Winning |Bill Schulz |October 19, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
When a 16-year-old takes on that wide-eyed, touched-for-the-very-first-time role, it all comes off as a tad more…juvenile.

Why 'The Giver' Movie Will Disappoint the Book's Fans |Kevin Fallon |August 15, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
“I found the help I needed to be healthy,” says Mindi, a wide-eyed woman with a round face and a chatty affect.

One Breakdown Can Mean Losing Your Kid Forever |ProPublica |May 30, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
The mug shots have gone viral: wide-eyed, scared-looking Megan Huntsman, 39.

The Psychology of Mothers Who Kill Their Children |Janelle Dumalaon |April 17, 2014 |DAILY BEAST

Wide-eyed, he told me that I had to go look in the bathroom, there was a picture of Jason on the wall.

He Left Nirvana Because He Had Cooler Things to Do. Like Going to Iraq. |Jacob Siegel |April 12, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
For Billy, pale, wide-eyed and laughless, was not in the order of things as they should be.

Joyce of the North Woods |Harriet T. Comstock
Shivering and wide-eyed, the boy crept to his bunk, where he fell asleep at last to the sound of screaming wind and lashing water.

The Black Buccaneer |Stephen W. Meader
Simon's scudiero, standing with their string of horses, stared at her wide-eyed.

The Saracen: The Holy War |Robert Shea
But Aunt Valeria's patience was sometimes sorely taxed by his wide-eyed attention to the story.

The Open Question |Elizabeth Robins
He was very fond of these round-cheeked, wide-eyed human things that clung about him and knew no evil of him.

Romola |George Eliot

wide-eyed

innocent or credulous