heavy-lidded

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   having eyelids that appear unusually heavy, partly closed, or drooping

   He gave the witness a heavy-lidded stare that made him look tired and skeptical.

A compound of heavy + lidded, literally 'having heavy eyelids.' English has used lidded in compounds since the nineteenth century; heavy-lidded can describe actual drooping lids or the weary, languid, or guarded expression they suggest.

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