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beady

/ˈbiː.di/US/ˈbi.di/

beady adjective: resembling beads; small, round, and gleaming.

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
    • I shivered in every limb, and a cold beady dew sprang out on my temples as I stood with eyes riveted on the spectral figure before me.1902, Robert Marshall Grade, The Haunted Major
  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

beady meaning in Urdu

beady in Urdu

دانے دار

Examples of beady in a sentence

  • I've got my beady eye on you, so don't try any monkey business.
  • His beady noggin had visions of floggens as he zeroed in on the new ackamarackus.
  • “Chico, you're late again.” I turned around and stared him in his beady eyes.

All 12 example sentences with beady

Forms of beady

comparativebeadier
comparativemore beady
superlativebeadiest
superlativemost beady

Origin of beady

From bead + -y.

Words formed from beady

Phrases with beady

Words that rhyme with beady

Questions about beady

What does beady mean?
Beady means resembling beads; small, round, and gleaming.
What is beady in Urdu?
Beady in Urdu is دانے دار. See Beady meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is beady?
Beady is an adjective.
How do you pronounce beady?
Beady is pronounced /ˈbiː.di/ (UK).

Words near beady in the dictionary

  1. beadwork
  2. beadworker
  3. beadworkers
  4. beadworking
  5. beadworks
  6. beady
  7. beady eye
  8. beady eyes
  9. beady-eyed
  10. beag
  11. beagador

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Adapted from Wiktionary: beady (page history and authors); beady (Urdu Wiktionary) (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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