Learn English – How to we refer to someone’s eyes

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When we used the word "look", mostly it refers to someone's (his/her) overall appearance.
But how can I use this word properly in order to imply or to refer to someone's eyes..?
Should I use always "eyes" as a subject or should I use a preposition or adverb?

To make it clear I wrote some sentences:

  1. You look good = You look presentable = You are good-looking

  2. You look well = You look healthy

  3. You look happy = Your body looks happy (here eyes also can show the experience of happiness besides face and body)

But when I try to say:

a.

You look so deep, meaningful, tired. (Could it connote only eyes?)

Should I say

"Your eyes look so deeply, meaningfully, tiredly"

b.

I can see tiredness in your look. (Could it connote only eyes?)

Should I say

"I can see the tiredness in your eyes"

or should I say

"The look in your eyes shows how tired you are"

Best Answer

*"Your eyes look so deeply,meaningfully, tiredly" are all incorrect syntactically.

The "ly" suffix should not be there - regardless of the questionably semantics.

You can say:

  1. Your eyes look tired

That is very natural and common.

Saying:

  1. Your eyes look deep
  2. Your eyes look meaningful

Are both grammatically correct, but are metaphors - and quite poetic ones. For some reason "your eyes look deep" seems much much better than "your eyes look meaningful" as a figurative expression. I would not recommend "your eyes look meaningful" - even in a poem.

(I am a native Australian English speaker, but not a poet)

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