dead-eyes

Never miss marksmen

Dead-eyes is a fixed, expressionless stare—the look of someone showing no emotion or appearing not to fully register what's in front of them.

The term evokes the vacant gaze of a corpse.

Someone can give you dead-eyes intentionally as a form of intimidation or dismissal, or unintentionally when exhausted or checked out: She gave me dead-eyes when I asked about the project.

menacing

glare

Fierce stare or brightness

chilling · threatening · intimidating · unflinching · predatory · sinister · unnerving · calculating · ruthless · killer

expressionless

blank

Without marks or content

lifeless · stare · glazed · unblinking · flat · dull · soulless · void · emotionless · impassive

nautical

deadeye

Unerring shooter

  • riggingRopes controlling ship sails
  • blockSolid mass, or impede
  • shroudBurial cloth or covering

lanyard · tackle · pulley · rope · mast · sailing · cordage · nautical · shipboard · ratline

Opposites
marksmanship skill

dead-eyesamateurs

Nonprofessional participants

incompetents · novices · beginners · bunglers · greenhorns

ocular expression

dead-eyesexpressive eyes

Gaze conveying deep feeling

glowing eyes

Family

dead, eye, eyes, deader, deadest, deadly, deaden, deadened, deadening

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Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Negative · Rated PG