Synonyms for eye
- noun
- verb
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
2. Evil eye — A meaningful look or stare. An angry, annoyed, or malicious one. An evil one
Other
eyeball, sight, view, observation, googly eye, orb formal, eyelet, judgment US, judgement UK, perceptiveness, pit-eye, estimate, burner
Verb
Other
Definitions
- n. 1
A meaningful look or stare. An angry, annoyed, or malicious one. An evil one.
He sought the help of an alchemist regarding remedies to ward off the eye.
- n. 2
An organ through which animals see (“perceive surroundings via light”).
Bright lights really hurt my eyes.
- n. 3
The visual sense.
The car was quite pleasing to the eye, but impractical.
- v. 1
To carefully or appraisingly observe (someone or something).
They went out and eyed the new car one last time before deciding.
Related words
- Word family
- eye-apple eyeball eyebath eyeblink eyebright eyecap eye-catcher eye-catching
- Phrases
- stink eye private eye black eye evil eye crab's eye eye socket my eye eye tooth
- Is a kind of
- organ
Example sentences
- optic A national fibre-optic network project has started.
- oculus He got the money back for the Oculus.
- ocular An ocularist is a person who makes ocular prosthetics.
- heart The frightened boy's heart palpitated with terror.
By length
- 3 letters
- orb1
- 4 letters
- view1, gaze1
- 5 letters
- heart1, watch1, sight1, optic2
- 6 letters
- center2, middle2, centre2, burner2, oculus, ocular3, eyelet2
- 7 letters
- observe2, eyeball2
- 8 letters
- judgment2, estimate3
- 9 letters
- judgement2
- 11 letters
- observation4
- 14 letters
- perceptiveness
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (optic2 = 2 syllables).