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beardless

beardless adjective: lacking a beard.

Adjective

beardless (comparative more beardless, superlative most beardless)

  1. Lacking a beard.
    • A eunuch is a negative creature. A beardless Moslem is contemptuously designated as manless.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page iii
    • Distinctly slender (willowy), quietly fem/androgynous, beardless chap who can wear clothes and speak well is what I'm hoping to find.1987 February 1, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, volume 14, number 28, page 13
    Synonyms:
    smooth-faced
  2. (broadly) Not having reached puberty or manhood; youthful.
    • shall a beardless boy,
      Cocker’d silken wanton, brave our fields,
      And flesh his spirit in a warlike soil,
      Mocking the air with colours idly spread,
      And find no check?1596, Shakespeare, King John, Act 4, Scene 1
  3. Lacking an awn.
    • beardless wheat
  4. Lacking a beard (a defined patch of feathers below the beak).

beardless meaning in Urdu, Pashto and Arabic

beardless in Urdu

beardless, youthful, beautiful
سادہ رو sādā-rū

beardless in Pashto

beardless, clean-shaven
ساده sādá

beardless in Arabic

without a beard
أَمْرَد ʔamrad

Synonyms of beardless

Forms of beardless

comparativemore beardless
superlativemost beardless

Origin of beardless

From Middle English bērdlēs, from Old English beardlēas (“beardless”), from Proto-West Germanic *bardalaus (“beardless”), equivalent to beard + -less. Cognate with Scots berdles (“beardless”), Saterland Frisian boartloos (“beardless”), West Frisian burdleas (“beardless”), Dutch baardeloos (“beardless”), German Low German baartlos (“beardless”), German bartlos (“beardless”).

Words formed from beardless

Questions about beardless

What does beardless mean?
Beardless means lacking a beard.
What is beardless in Urdu?
Beardless in Urdu is سادہ رو (sādā-rū). See Beardless meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is beardless?
Beardless is an adjective.

Words near beardless in the dictionary

  1. bearding the lion in his den
  2. beardish
  3. beardism
  4. beardist
  5. beardists
  6. beardless
  7. beardlessness
  8. beardlet
  9. beardlets
  10. beardletted
  11. beardlike

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Adapted from Wiktionary: beardless (page history and authors); سادہ رو (Urdu) (page history and authors); ساده (Pashto) (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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