small eyes
Tight, squinting peepers
Small eyes describes eyes that appear relatively narrow or reduced in size, whether by genetics, facial structure, or expression.
The phrase can be purely descriptive—She has small eyes like her father—but context matters: when directed at East Asians, it often carries racist overtones, reducing people to a stereotype.
Someone who makes small eyes is squinting suspiciously or judgmentally.
- squintPartly close eyes
- beadySmall and bright
- narrowOf small width
- piercingPenetrating or very sharp
- slitsNarrow linear openings
piggy · close-set · close together · peering · glint · mole · rodent · shrewd · cunning · sizing up · needle · glare · blink · weasel · suspicious · myopic · glasses · reading glasses
- Eye Shapesalmond, round, oval, hooded, monolid
- eyespupils, iris, eyelids, eyelashes, lashes
- Ganeshaelephant head, elephant trunk, tusks, large ears, trunk
- sawsharksrostrum, barbels
- batsbat, bats, vampire bat, fruit bat, flying fox
- bat anatomywing, wing membrane, echolocation, large ears, tragus
small eyeslarge eyes
Oversized ocular organs
big eyes · wide eyes · bulging eyes · saucer eyes · googly eyes
small eyesdoe eyes
Wide, innocent-looking stare
doe-eyed · wide-eyed · round eyes · open eyes · saucer-eyed
small, smaller, smallest, smallish, smallness, eye, eyes, eyed, eyeing