Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Deeply set or placed.
- adjective Deep-seated.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Set deeply; fixed far downward or inward, as the eyes in their sockets.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective having a sunken area.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Set
deeply below a surface, as on a face
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having a sunken area
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Examples
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She looked at him as he slept, his squarish face with its heavy brows and deep-set eyes always made her think of the bust of a Roman senator she had seen in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He was dressed in his usual denim shirt and khaki shorts.
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Her oval face, taller than broad, with deep-set eyes, had a grace contrasting with her bright easy temperament.
Excerpt: In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin 2009
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The eyes themselves were small, deep-set, and close together.
CHAPTER III 2010
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Faint tendrils of smoke rose from white ash in the deep-set hearth.
Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011
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Her eyes were larger than most of her kind, and they were not so deep-set, while the lashes were longer and more regular.
CHAPTER X 2010
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During my visit, the city was drenched in seasonal rains, but it bathes year-round in a deep-set shabbiness.
The Next Empire 2010
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Consider the recent uproar over Amy Chua's Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother -- the prepublication excerpt alone attracting over 1 million reads and 7,500 comments -- which reveals that Americans may be harboring a deep-set fear of other cultures and countries getting ahead, beating our system, "winning," so to say.
Kate Otto: Winning the Future, Losing the Point? Kate Otto 2011
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Consider the recent uproar over Amy Chua's Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother -- the prepublication excerpt alone attracting over 1 million reads and 7,500 comments -- which reveals that Americans may be harboring a deep-set fear of other cultures and countries getting ahead, beating our system, "winning," so to say.
Kate Otto: Winning the Future, Losing the Point? Kate Otto 2011
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Consider the recent uproar over Amy Chua's Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother -- the prepublication excerpt alone attracting over 1 million reads and 7,500 comments -- which reveals that Americans may be harboring a deep-set fear of other cultures and countries getting ahead, beating our system, "winning," so to say.
Kate Otto: Winning the Future, Losing the Point? Kate Otto 2011
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He was older than Saldis, as evidenced by lines around his deep-set eyes, and taller than Saldis by half a head.
Star Trek The Next Generation® David A. McIntee 2011
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