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What does starry-eyed mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word starry-eyed? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Having naïvely optimistic hopes or outlooks.
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He recalled, starry-eyed, the famous occasion when still a pre-school toddler, he was travelling with his mum into Dublin city centre.
So here is yet another youngster with starry-eyed visions of winning a Grammy aka Pandit Vishwa Mohan Bhatt.
But, these were painters of fantasy, merely starry-eyed utopians unfit to be assigned any place in the Republic of Plato.
Pursuing these goals is not an act of starry-eyed idealism or blind allegiance to principle.
The students do not, for the most part, have a starry-eyed vision of the U.S. as The Country That Does Everything Right.
McCaw may be a hard-nosed businessman, but there is a starry-eyed visionary in him, too.

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