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beadier

beadier is the comparative form of beady.

Meaning of beady

Adjective

beady (comparative beadier or more beady, superlative beadiest or most beady)

  1. Resembling beads; small, round, and gleaming.
    • seeing Mrs. Bute's beady eyes1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 19, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC
  2. Bright and penetrating. (of eyes or a look)
    • Cracked eggs, dead birds, scream as they fight for life / I can feel death, can see its beady eyes1996, Radiohead, “Street Spirit (Fade Out)”, in The Bends
  3. Covered or ornamented with, or as if with, beads.
  4. Characterized by beads.
    • beady liquor

Questions about beadier

What is beadier the comparative form of?
Beadier is the comparative form of beady.

Words near beadier in the dictionary

  1. beadfuls
  2. beadhook
  3. beadhooks
  4. beadhouse
  5. beadhouses
  6. beadier
  7. beadies
  8. beadiest
  9. beadily
  10. beadiness
  11. beading

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Adapted from Wiktionary: beadier (page history and authors); beady (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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