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bespectacled en · ADJ

Pronunciation

Etymology

From be- + spectacle + -ed.

Meanings

  1. 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:
    • 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 Christian Science Monitor:
    • 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:
    • The choristers were as bespectacled as the audience. Are Protestants more bespectacled than Catholics because of too much Bible reading? 2002, Steven Barclay, A Place in the World Called Paris, page 149:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
most bespectacled Degree=Sup lexicographic
more bespectacled Degree=Cmp lexicographic

Antonyms

unspectacled · unbespectacled

Relateds

begoggled · spectacles

Synonyms

eyeglassed · four-eyed · glassesed · beglassed · spectacled

Translations (38)

es que lleva gafas (wearing spectacles (glasses)) · ms memakai kaca mata (wearing spectacles (glasses)) · fr bésiclard (wearing spectacles (glasses)) · da bebrillede (wearing spectacles (glasses)) · pt com óculos (wearing spectacles (glasses)) · nl bebrild (wearing spectacles (glasses)) · cs brejlatý (wearing spectacles (glasses)) · bg очила́т (wearing spectacles (glasses)) · mi mau mō(w)hiti (wearing spectacles (glasses)) · ms berkaca mata (wearing spectacles (glasses)) · de brilletragend (wearing spectacles (glasses)) · cmn 有戴眼鏡 /有戴眼镜 (wearing spectacles (glasses)) · cs brýlatý (wearing spectacles (glasses)) · el διοπτροφόρος (wearing spectacles (glasses)) · pt de óculos (wearing spectacles (glasses)) · mi karu mōwhiti (wearing spectacles (glasses)) · hu szemüveges (wearing spectacles (glasses)) · es con gafas (wearing spectacles (glasses)) · hy ակնոցավոր (wearing spectacles (glasses)) · es gafotas (wearing spectacles (glasses)) · pl w okularach (wearing spectacles (glasses)) · gl que leva lentes (wearing spectacles (glasses)) · tr gözlüklü (wearing spectacles (glasses)) · fr binoclard (wearing spectacles (glasses)) · fi silmälasipäinen (wearing spectacles (glasses)) · sv glasögonprydd (wearing spectacles (glasses)) · es anteojudo (wearing spectacles (glasses)) · id berkacamata (wearing spectacles (glasses)) · it occhialuto (wearing spectacles (glasses)) · de eine Brille tragend (wearing spectacles (glasses)) · ms bercermin mata (wearing spectacles (glasses)) · de bebrillt (wearing spectacles (glasses)) · ms memakai cermin mata (wearing spectacles (glasses)) · mi whai mōwhiti (wearing spectacles (glasses)) · id memakai kacamata (wearing spectacles (glasses)) · ru очкарик (wearing spectacles (glasses)) · es gafudo (wearing spectacles (glasses)) · fr à lunettes (wearing spectacles (glasses))