Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

black-eyed

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: 3.95 in modern English

Syllables: black--eyed
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Having a black eye.

adj

Having the iris of a black color.

adj

as a part of a phrase

Example Sentences

"This morning Keegan looks blacker-haired and blacker-eyed than ever before. The cold has plucked extra color into his cheeks and nose, and his outsized ears are flower-pot red."
"Equally intolerable to her family was her desire, when the time came, to go with the blackest-eyed teenage boy in the tabor."
"The black pup sits there, listening, watching. Momma looks at him. “If you aren’t the blackest-eyed dog I’ve ever seen,” she says. “We'll start calling you Blacky.[…]”"
"black-eyed pea"
"black-eyed Susan"

Inflected Forms

more black-eyed (comparative) blacker-eyed (comparative) most black-eyed (superlative) blackest-eyed (superlative) blackeyed (alternative)

Questions

What does black-eyed mean?: Having a black eye.

How to pronounce black-eyed

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