0 If someone is dry-eyed, that person is not crying, especially in a situation in which you might expect them to be crying:
Letting the light go off, she sat, dry-eyed and utterly hopeless, staring into the darkness.
He came, dry-eyed, through the ordeal, raging inwardly, but silent.
The countenance said nothing to her; she gazed at it dry-eyed.
She had not wept; this dry-eyed suffering was a deal worse for the girl, however, than would have been a passion of tears.
You are more likely to sit and brood in dry-eyed silence.
The matron realized that the dry-eyed, resolute-faced girl seated opposite her had been punished sufficiently by her own conscience.
The little one was dry-eyed as she had been that day in the railroad station.
They were dry-eyed now but white and numb with shock.
