bespectacled
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Etymology
Pronunciation
Adjective
bespectacled (comparative more bespectacled, superlative most bespectacled)
- 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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Translations
wearing spectacles (glasses)
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