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facial

/ˈfeɪ.ʃəl/

facial adjective: of or affecting the face.

Adjective

facial (not comparable)

  1. (relational) Of or affecting the face.
  2. (relational) Concerned with or used in improving the appearance of the face.
  3. (transferred sense) (of a law or regulation validity) On its face; as it appears (as opposed to on a more probing analysis, as it is applied, etc.).
    • The facial constitutionality of the law is in question.
    • Discipline is a form of counter-law, of dissymmetry and inequality, that operates under the discourse of juridical power to make possible the stated or facial claims of equality and rights characteristic of the French Revolution.2001, Bernard E. Harcourt, chapter 5, in Illusion of Order

Noun

facial (plural facials)

  1. A personal care beauty treatment which involves cleansing and moisturizing of the human face.
  2. A kind of early silent film focusing on the facial expressions of the actor.
    • But in facials, moving picture technology also enabled an exaggeration of this performance tradition, bringing a new emphasis to the details […]2004, Simon Popple, Joe Kember, Early Cinema: From Factory Gate to Dream Factory, page 92
  3. (slang) (in some contact sports) A foul play which involves one player hitting another's face.
  4. (slang) A sex act of ejaculation onto another person's face.
    • Long-Dong Chuck gave his co-star a creamy facial.
    • For the piece she spoke to two women who said they enjoy facials, and who described the act as ‘the mark of a job well done’ and ‘really hot’. But Reid concludes that she herself finds facials deeply unpleasant.2021, Rachel Thompson, chapter 5, in Rough, Random House
    Synonyms:
    money shot

facial meaning in Tamil, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali

facial in Tamil

முகம் சார்ந்த, முகத்துக்குரிய, முகத்தின், முக, ஏவல் கடத்தி நரம்பு, புறநோக்கு நரம்பு

facial in Marathi

of the face
चेहर्यासंबंधी ceharyāsambandhī
beauty treatment
फेशियल pheśiyal
sex act
फेशियल pheśiyal

facial in Urdu

ہئیتی, پیکری

facial in Bengali

সম্মুখস্থ, উপরি ভাগযুক্ত
More languagesFewer languages
facial in Telugu
ముఖ mukha
facial in Malayalam
മുഖ mukha

Examples of facial in a sentence

  • I knew he was telling a lie by his facial expression.
  • He was bottled at a nightclub and had to have facial surgery.
  • The lighting was too dim for me to make out his facial features.

All 40 example sentences with facial

Synonyms of facial

Forms of facial

pluralfacials

Plural of facial: facials

Origin of facial

Early 17th century, borrowed from Medieval Latin faciālis (“face-to-face, direct, open”), from faciēs (“form, configuration, figure; face, visage, countenance”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix).

Words formed from facial

Phrases with facial

3 more phrasesFewer phrases

Words that rhyme with facial

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Questions about facial

What does facial mean?
Facial means of or affecting the face.
What is facial in Tamil?
Facial in Tamil is முகம் சார்ந்த, முகத்துக்குரிய, முகத்தின். See Facial meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is facial?
Facial can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce facial?
Facial is pronounced /ˈfeɪ.ʃəl/.

Words near facial in the dictionary

  1. fachidiot
  2. fachidiots
  3. Fachtna Fáthach
  4. facia
  5. FaCIAbook
  6. facial
  7. facial angle
  8. facial angles
  9. facial arteries
  10. facial artery
  11. facial composite

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: facial (page history and authors); facial (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); facial (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); facial (Bengali 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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