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beardless en · ADJ

Pronunciation

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Etymology

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”).

Meanings

1. Lacking a beard.
   • 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:
   • 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:
2. (broadly, of a male) 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).

Forms

Deriveds

beardlessness

Relateds

beardedness · unbeard · beard · debeard · bearded

Synonyms

smooth-faced

Translations (62)

sh ćosav (without a beard) · el αγένειος (without a beard) · es imberbe (not having reached manhood) · ru безборо́дый (without a beard) · nl baardloos (without a beard) · ar أَمْرَد (without a beard) · gl lampiño (without a beard) · az saqqalsız (without a beard) · ga amhulchach (without a beard) · pl gołobrody (not having reached manhood) · pt sem barba (without a beard) · de ohne Bart (without a beard) · sh golobrad (without a beard) · pl bezostny (lacking awn) · pt imberbe (without a beard) · ckb کۆسە (without a beard) · tk sakgalsyz (without a beard) · ca barbamec (without a beard) · ja ひげなし (without a beard) · io senbarba (without a beard) · enm berdles (not having reached manhood) · pl bezbrody (without a beard) · hy անմորուք (without a beard) · es barbilampiño (without a beard) · fo óskeggjaður (without a beard) · it imberbe (without a beard) · es imberbe (without a beard) · mk голобрад (without a beard) · es inmaduro (not having reached manhood) · pt lampinho (without a beard) · es carilampiño (without a beard) · cy di-farf (without a beard) · pi amassuka (without a beard) · enm berdles (without a beard) · la imberbis (without a beard) · cs bezvousý (without a beard) · pl bezościsty (lacking awn) · es desbarbado (without a beard) · fi vihneetön (lacking awn) · es mancebo (not having reached manhood) · grc ἀπώγων (without a beard) · be безбаро́ды (without a beard) · lt bebarzdis (without a beard) · ka უწვერულვაშო (without a beard) · eo senbarba (without a beard) · gl imberbe (without a beard) · sdh کووسە (without a beard) · es sin barba (without a beard) · fr imberbe (without a beard) · fi siloposkinen (not having reached manhood) · mk ќос (without a beard) · uk безборо́дий (without a beard) · es lampiño (without a beard) · fi parraton (without a beard) · tr sakalsız (without a beard) · kmr kose (without a beard) · de bartlos (without a beard) · it sbarbato (without a beard) · ka უწვერო (without a beard) · ga maol (lacking awn) · el απώγων (without a beard) · gl barbalampiño (without a beard)