Bearded
adj, noun, verb, slang ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 Ellipsis of bearded iris. abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, informal
"The herbaceous perennial irises benefit from at least one feeding a year in early spring as growth begins. Siberian and Japanese irises appreciate a second feeding just as the flowers fade. Beardeds do best with a second feeding in late summer."
- 1 simple past and past participle of beard form-of, participle, past
- 1 Having a beard; involving a beard.
"Good sir, be a man: / Think every bearded fellow that's but yoked / May draw with you:"
- 2 Having a fringe or appendage resembling a beard in some way (often followed by with).
"This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, / Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, / Stand like Druids of eld [...]"
- 3 Of an axe: having the lower portion of the axehead extending the cutting edge significantly below the width of the butt, thus providing a wide cutting surface while keeping overall weight low.
- 4 Having a beard (or similar appendage) of a specified type. in-compounds
"[...] who knows / If the scarce-bearded Caesar have not sent / His powerful mandate to you, ‘Do this, or this; Take in that kingdom, and enfranchise that; / Perform 't, or else we damn thee.’"
- 5 Having barbs of a certain color.
- 1 having a growth of hairlike awns wordnet
- 2 having hair on the cheeks and chin wordnet
Antonyms
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More examples"The bearded god had promised to return someday in the same way he had left."
Etymology
From Middle English berded, either from Old English ġebearded or formed anew in Middle English; by surface analysis, beard + -ed. Compare Dutch bebaarde (“bearded”), Middle Low German bārt (“bearded”), archaic German gebartet (“bearded”).
From beard + -ed.
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