"dead-eyed" meaning in English

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Adjective

Forms: more dead-eyed [comparative], most dead-eyed [superlative]
Head templates: {{en-adj}} dead-eyed (comparative more dead-eyed, superlative most dead-eyed)
  1. Having eyes that lack emotion or seem vacant. Categories (topical): Eye Related terms: thousand-yard stare Coordinate_terms: fish-eyed, glassy-eyed
    Sense id: en-dead-eyed-en-adj-vl~LFmpb Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
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          "ref": "1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 911:",
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