bespectacled
/bɪˈspɛktəkəld/
bespectacled adjective: wearing spectacles (glasses).
Adjective
bespectacled (comparative more bespectacled, superlative most bespectacled)
- Wearing spectacles (glasses).
- 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.1917 April, Jack London, chapter XXIV, in Jerry of the Islands, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC, page 329
- 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.2001, Salman Rushdie, Fury: A Novel, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 34
- Synonyms:
- beglassed, eyeglassed, four-eyed, glassesed, spectacled
- Antonyms:
- unbespectacled, unspectacled
bespectacled meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malay
bespectacled in Tamil
- கண் கண்ணாடி அணிந்துள்ள
bespectacled in Urdu
- چشمے والا
bespectacled in Bengali
- bespectacled
- চশমাপরা cośmapora
bespectacled in Malay
- wearing spectacles (glasses)
- berkaca mata, memakai kaca mata, bercermin mata, memakai cermin mata
More languagesFewer languages
- bespectacled in Indonesian
- berkacamata, memakai kacamata
Examples of bespectacled in a sentence
- The choristers were as bespectacled as the audience.2002, Steven Barclay, A Place in the World Called Paris, page 149:
- What caught my eye, however, was an appearance on state-run television in Beijing of DeepSeek’s bespectacled, mop-topped CEO, Liang Wenfeng, who met with China’s No. 2 official – Premier Li Qiang.2025 December 29, Ann Scott Tyson, “In 2025, China proved its innovation prowess. But are some workers getting left behind?”, in The...
Synonyms of bespectacled
Antonyms
Forms of bespectacled
| comparative | more bespectacled |
|---|---|
| superlative | most bespectacled |
Origin of bespectacled
From be- + spectacle + -ed.
Questions about bespectacled
- What does bespectacled mean?
- Bespectacled means wearing spectacles (glasses).
- What is bespectacled in Tamil?
- Bespectacled in Tamil is கண் கண்ணாடி அணிந்துள்ள. See Bespectacled meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use bespectacled in a sentence?
- The choristers were as bespectacled as the audience.
- What part of speech is bespectacled?
- Bespectacled is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce bespectacled?
- Bespectacled is pronounced /bɪˈspɛktəkəld/.
Words near bespectacled in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: bespectacled (page history and authors); bespectacled (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); bespectacled (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); চশমাপরা (Bengali) (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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