bespectacled
English
WOTD – 29 December 2011
A bespectacled child
Etymology
From be- + spectacle + -ed.
Pronunciation
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Adjective
bespectacled (comparative more bespectacled, superlative most bespectacled)
- Wearing spectacles (glasses).
- 1917, Jack London, chapter 24, in Jerry of the Islands:
- The Commissioner, ascetic-looking, an Oxford graduate, narrow-shouldered and elderly, tired-eyed and bespectacled like the scholar he was, like the scientist he was, shrugged his shoulders.
- 2002, Steven Barclay, A Place in the World Called Paris, page 149:
- The choristers were as bespectacled as the audience. Are Protestants more bespectacled than Catholics because of too much Bible reading?
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Antonyms
- unbespectacled
- unspectacled
Synonyms
- four-eyed (slang, pejorative), spectacled
Related terms
- spectacles
Translations
wearing spectacles (glasses)
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