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unwhiskered

unwhiskered adjective: without whiskers.

Adjective

unwhiskered (not comparable)

  1. Without whiskers.
    • […] he was fifty or thereabouts, a little inclined to corpulence, a prepossessing face, unwhiskered, and of an agreeable color—a rather full face, humanely intelligent in expression.1924, Herman Melville, chapter 1, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.
    • The four bearers, all unwhiskered eunuchs, stood in front of the chairs, their hands tucked into their sleeves, looks of disdain on their faces.2013, Mo Yan, chapter 2, in Howard Goldblatt, transl., Sandalwood Death, University of Oklahoma Press
    Synonyms:
    whiskerless

Synonyms of unwhiskered

Origin of unwhiskered

From un- + whiskered.

Questions about unwhiskered

What does unwhiskered mean?
Unwhiskered means without whiskers.
What part of speech is unwhiskered?
Unwhiskered is an adjective.

Words near unwhiskered in the dictionary

  1. unwhipping
  2. unwhips
  3. unwhipt
  4. unwhirled
  5. unwhisked
  6. unwhiskered
  7. unwhisperable
  8. unwhisperables
  9. unwhispered
  10. unwhispering
  11. unwhistleable

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