bearded
/ˈbɪədɪd/US/ˈbɪɹdəd/
bearded adjective: having a beard; involving a beard. Also the ellipsis of bearded iris.
Adjective
bearded (comparative more bearded, superlative most bearded)
- Having a beard; involving a beard.
- (botany)
- (zoology)
- Synonyms:
- barbigerous, beardy, be-bearded, awny, barbate, barbed, bristly
- Having a fringe or appendage resembling a beard in some way (often followed by with).
- bearded mussel
- This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, / Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, / Stand like Druids of eld [...]1847 November 1, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline, a Tale of Acadie, Boston, Mass.: William D. Ticknor & Company, →OCLC, (please specify either |part=I or II), lines 1-3
- Of an axe: having the lower portion of the axehead extending the cutting edge significantly below the width of the butt, thus providing a wide cutting surface while keeping overall weight low.
- Having a beard (or similar appendage) of a specified type.
- [...] who knows / If the scarce-bearded Caesar have not sent / His powerful mandate to you, ‘Do this, or this; Take in that kingdom, and enfranchise that; / Perform 't, or else we damn thee.’c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard...
- … for with his hammer Thor / Smote 'mid the rocks the lichen-bearded pines / And burst their roots …1855, Matthew Arnold, Balder Dead, Part II, lines 55-7, in The Poems of Matthew Arnold, 1840-1867, Oxford University Press, 1909, p. 248, https://archive.org/details/cu31924013206499
- Having barbs of a certain color.
- Synonyms:
- barbed
Also used as
bearded is also the ellipsis of bearded iris.
bearded is also the simple past and past participle of beard.
bearded meaning in Tamil, Marathi, Bengali and Telugu
bearded in Tamil
- தாடி வைத்தவர், தாடி வைத்தது
bearded in Marathi
- दाढी केलेली
bearded in Bengali
- দাড়ি করা
bearded in Telugu
- గడ్డం పట్టడం
More languagesFewer languages
- bearded in Malayalam
- താടിയുള്ള
- bearded in Gujarati
- દાઢી કરેલી
- bearded in Arabic
- مُلْتَحٍ multaḥin
- bearded in Malay
- berjanggut
- Kashmiri
- دارؠل dāryal
Examples of bearded in a sentence
- Good sir, be a man: / Think every bearded fellow that's but yoked / May draw with you:c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies...
- [B]ut the joyous sea / Shall be our raiment, and the bearded star / Shoot arrows at our pleasure!1881, Oscar Wilde, “Panthea”, in Poems, London: David Bogue, […], →OCLC, page 184:
- Bearded with dewy grass the mountains thrust / Their blackness high into the still grey light,1894, A. E., “On a Hill-Top”, in Homeward: Songs by the Way, London: John Lane, published 1901, page 42:
- Down below that in the Great River, now at its coldest hour, the heads and shoulders of the nymphs, and the great weedy-bearded head of the river-god, rose from the water.1951, C. S. Lewis, chapter 11, in Prince Caspian, Collins, published 1998:
Synonyms of bearded
Antonyms
Forms of bearded
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more bearded |
| superlative | most bearded |
| Noun | |
| plural | beardeds |
Origin of bearded
From Middle English berded, either from Old English ġebearded or formed anew in Middle English; by surface analysis, beard + -ed. Compare Dutch bebaarde (“bearded”), Middle Low German bārt (“bearded”), archaic German gebartet (“bearded”).
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Words formed from bearded
- bearded clam
- bearded collie
- bearded creeper
- bearded dragon
- bearded eagle
- bearded hawksbeard
- bearded iris
- bearded lady
- bearded lizard
- bearded mountaineer
- bearded mussel
- beardedness
- bearded parrotbill
- bearded pig
- Sus ahoenobarbus)
- bearded reedling
- bearded saki
- bearded seal
- bearded star
- bearded tit
- bearded tortoise
- bearded vulture
- blue-bearded
- diabetic bearded woman syndrome
- full-bearded
- nonbearded
- scraggle-bearded
- unbearded
- white-bearded antshrike
Phrases with bearded
- bearded pigs
- bearded tits
- bearded clams
- bearded sakis
- bearded seals
- bearded irises
- bearded ladies
- bearded collies
- bearded dragons
- bearded lizards
- bearded mussels
- bearded creepers
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Questions about bearded
- What does bearded mean?
- Bearded means having a beard; involving a beard.
- What is bearded in Tamil?
- Bearded in Tamil is தாடி வைத்தவர், தாடி வைத்தது. See Bearded meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use bearded in a sentence?
- Good sir, be a man: / Think every bearded fellow that's but yoked / May draw with you:
- What part of speech is bearded?
- Bearded is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce bearded?
- Bearded is pronounced /ˈbɪədɪd/ (UK).
Words near bearded in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: bearded (page history and authors); bearded (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bearded (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bearded (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bearded (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bearded (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bearded (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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