wide-eyed

wide-eyed (comparative more wide-eyed, superlative most wide-eyed)

1. Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: see wide,‎ eye,‎ -ed.

   Synonyms: moon-eyed, owly-eyed, pie-eyed, saucer-eyed

   She was like her mother: tiny, curly-haired, and wide-eyed.

   • 2017, Jennifer S. Holland, For These Monkeys, It’s a Fight for Survival., National Geographic (March 2017)

     Cartoonish, wide-eyed infants cling to their mothers or play together low to the ground.

2. (by extension) Astonished or surprised.

   The magician’s trick left the audience wide-eyed.

   • 2014, Rebecca Ley, "City versus country childhoods", The Guardian, 20 December 2014:

     Country life doesn’t protect you from real life. A rural childhood may leave you wide-eyed a bit longer about some things, but it doesn’t confer the insulating innocence that some parents seem to hope.