eye-watering
adjective
1Causing the eyes to water: eye-watering Scotch bonnet chillies...
- They range from eye-watering acidity to honey-soaked late harvest dessert wines.
- Another new product, a gin with an eye-watering alcohol content of 60 %, will go on sale at the start of September.
- Thus, the wind renders me unable to see for all the blinking and eye-watering attempts to rid my eye of said debris.
2(Especially of a figure or amount) extremely high or large: an eye-watering 22% rise in business rates eye-watering pre-tax losses of £38.5 million...
- The total amount of footage now amounts to an eye-watering 400 hours of film.
- Building work has begun on a new clubhouse for Chiswick Rugby Club with the help of some eye-watering fund raising.
- Last summer several British drivers caught hurrying on their way to Le Mans were each fined 750 euros, an eye-watering £500.
Derivatives
eye-wateringly
[as submodifier]: his eye-wateringly expensive divorce settlement...
- They're also eye-wateringly expensive, around $900, which is a little more than a run-of-the-mill MP3 player.
- The policy has been eye-wateringly costly, yet it has not even achieved its one main objective.
- It's expensive, but not as eye-wateringly costly as owning and running your own jet.
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