bespectacled

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English[edit]

A bespectacled child

Etymology[edit]

From be- +‎ spectacle +‎ -ed.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /bɪˈspɛktəkəld/
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Adjective[edit]

bespectacled (comparative more bespectacled, superlative most bespectacled)

  1. Wearing spectacles (glasses).
    Synonyms: beglassed, eyeglassed, (slang, pejorative) four-eyed, (rare) glassesed, spectacled
    Antonyms: unbespectacled, unspectacled
    • 1917 April, Jack London, chapter XXIV, in Jerry of the Islands, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC, page 329:
      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.
    • 2001, Salman Rushdie, Fury: A Novel, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 34:
      Solanka was uninterested in this bow-tied, bespectacled, markedly un-Jedi-knight-like young man, and as a former science-fiction buff despised the lowbrow space opera of the Star Wars cycle.
    • 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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