wide-eyed

English edit

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

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: 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)[1]
  Cartoonish, wide-eyed infants cling to their mothers or play together low to the ground.
(by extension) Astonished or surprised.
The magician’s trick left the audience wide-eyed.
- 2014 December 20, Rebecca Ley, “City versus country childhoods”, in The Guardian:
  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.

astonished or surprised