bespectacled

English

WOTD – 29 December 2011

A bespectacled child

Etymology

From be- +‎ spectacle +‎ -ed.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɪˈspɛktəkəld/

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Adjective

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?

Related terms

• spectacles

Translations

wearing spectacles (glasses)

Armenian: ակնոցավոր (hy) (aknocʻavor) Bulgarian: очила́т (očilát) Chinese: Mandarin: 有戴眼鏡／有戴眼镜 (yǒu dài yǎnjìng) Czech: brýlatý m, brejlatý m Danish: bebrillede Dutch: bebrild (nl) Finnish: silmälasipäinen (fi) French: à lunettes, binoclard (fr), bésiclard (fr) Galician: leva lentes m or f German: eine Brille tragend, (rare) bebrillt (de), brilletragend, mit Brille (postpositioned) Greek: διοπτροφόρος (el) m or f (dioptrofóros) Hungarian: szemüveges (hu) Indonesian: berkacamata (id), memakai kacamata Italian: occhialuto (it) m Malay: berkaca mata, memakai kaca mata, bercermin mata, memakai cermin mata Maori: whai mōwhiti, karu mōwhiti, mau mō(w)hiti Portuguese: com óculos, de óculos Russian: (scornful) очкарик (ru) (očkarik) Spanish: con gafas, que lleva gafas, gafudo, gafotas (es), anteojudo (es) Swedish: glasögonprydd Turkish: gözlüklü (tr)