Dictionary

eyeglassed en · ADJ

Etymology

From eyeglass + -ed.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Synonym of bespectacled.
   • Some things are unforgettable. For instance, I once read that rotund, eyeglassed comedian Drew Carey, who comes across so square he’s cubic, has pierced nipples. 2001 January 4, Stu Bykofsky, “Unforgettable”, in Philadelphia Daily News, volume 76, number 233, Philadelphia, Pa., page 39:
   • A double-eyeglassed dandy, with dyed whiskers, which he paws and throws over his shoulder, who does not drawl his words, but speaks them somewhat through his nose, and with a stutter and a lisp, may not seem a very novel or attractive sort of character, but, as Mr. Sothern plays it, really it is both. 1865 October 7, The Belfast News-Letter, year CXXVIII, number 33,187, Belfast, column 1:
   • The room provides a view of the kind of restaurant scene only a city that has both money and space can provide: a large, airy dining room set under low ceilings, with wide tables and gentle lighting, packed close with artists, curators, dealers, gallery guys, smart-eyeglassed business tyros in three-piece suits, fat burghers eating Irish steak, French entrecote, Argentine beef. 2008 August 3, Sam Sifton, “Berlin captures the cultural zeitgeist”, in Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Honolulu, Haw., page G2, column 1:

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Synonyms

bespectacled