Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A complete view.
- noun One that is pleasing to the sight, especially an attractive person.
- noun Sufficient observation to discover more than one had expected or enough to be satisfied.
- noun An amount of material blown or directed into the eye.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Filling or attractive to the eye; visible; remarkable.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a view of something remarkable; a completely satisfying view; as much as, or more than, one would want to see.
- noun an unusually attractive person, especially a beautiful woman.
- adjective obsolete Filling or satisfying the eye; visible; remarkable.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A full or complete
view ; agood look . - noun A
remarkable sight or a veryattractive person (sometimes used ironically). - noun An amount of material blown into the eye.
- adjective Filling or
attractive to the eye;visible ;remarkable .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a strikingly beautiful woman
- noun a full view; a good look
Etymologies
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Examples
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Good job of assembling an "eyeful" of a delicious burger.
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Defiantly she raised her chin, proud to be sitting next to Jack, no matter what kind of eyeful they were giving the bountiful traffic.
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I sat, getting an eyeful of what Detective Cole must have been facing for the last few minutes: three very challenging, unimpressed faces.
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As he watched now, a Vesta-class ship, all stretched lines and an eyeful of speed, swooped around the planet.
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Alas, the resident eye candy got eliminated — but not before we got an eyeful of his favorite non-cooking pastime: painting naked women.
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There you are, you've just caught yourself an ear or an eyeful of someone else's "I love you," and you are now obligated to say... something!
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Shoppers on ritzy Rodeo Drive got an eyeful of Canalis as she posed next to her nude, black-and-white campaign portrait for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
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There you are, you've just caught yourself an ear or an eyeful of someone else's "I love you," and you are now obligated to say... something!
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But then: Lightsflickonthenoff—and in one quick eyeful you do see me standing betwixt concrete pillars with my four-man crew tagging a crumbling wall beneath a bridge.
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