Beardless
adj ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Lacking a beard.
"A eunuch is a negative creature. A beardless Moslem is contemptuously designated as manless."
- 2 Not having reached puberty or manhood; youthful. broadly
"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?"
- 3 Lacking an awn.
"beardless wheat"
- 4 Lacking a beard (a defined patch of feathers below the beak).
- 1 lacking hair on the face wordnet
- 2 having no beard wordnet
Example
More examples"A eunuch is a negative creature. A beardless Moslem is contemptuously designated as manless."
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”).