dead eyes
They never miss
Dead eyes describes a gaze that appears lifeless, empty, or emotionally vacant—showing no warmth, curiosity, or human connection.
The phrase suggests someone whose eyes reveal nothing inside: He stared at me with dead eyes.
Often used to describe psychopaths in fiction, exhausted workers, or anyone whose expression conveys emotional flatness or detachment.
- lifelessDevoid of animation
- vacantWithout an occupant
- hollowEmpty within
- thousand-yard stareTraumatic unfocused gaze
- stareProlonged fixed gaze
cold stare · blank · blank expression · glassy · expressionless · soulless · empty · glazed · cold · shark · doll · corpse · unblinking · distant · flat · numb · frozen · zombie
- facial expressionssmiling, smile, grin, grinning, frown
- eye movementsgaze, blink, stare, glance, squint
- detachmentemotional numbness, detached, dispassion, disengaged, indifference
- numbnessnumbness, insensibility, tingling, pins and needles, paresthesia