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)

1. 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?

Antonyms

• unbespectacled
• unspectacled

Synonyms

• four-eyed (slang, pejorative), spectacled

Related terms

• spectacles

Translations

wearing spectacles (glasses)

• Armenian: ակնոցավոր (hy) (aknocʻavor)
• Bulgarian: очила́т (očilát)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 有戴眼鏡／有戴眼镜, 有戴眼镜 (yǒu dài yǎnjìng)

• Dutch: bebrild (nl)
• Finnish: silmälasipäinen (fi)
• French: à lunettes
• Galician: leva lentes m or f
• German: eine Brille tragend, (rare) bebrillt
• Greek: διοπτροφόρος (el) m or f (dioptrofóros)
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• Hungarian: szemüveges (hu)
• Indonesian: berkacamata (id), memakai kacamata
• Malay: berkaca mata, memakai kaca mata, bercermin mata, memakai cermin mata
• Maori: whai mōwhiti, karu mōwhiti
• Portuguese: com óculos
• Russian: (scornful) очкарик (ru) (očkarik)
• Spanish: con gafas (es), que lleva gafas (es), gafudo m, gafotas (es) m or f, anteojudo (es) m
• Swedish: glasögonprydd
• Turkish: gözlüklü (tr)