bespectacled

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/bɪˈspɛktəkəld/

adjective

Wearing spectacles (glasses).

UncommonScrabble 21

Meanings

adjectivebespectacled (comparative more bespectacled, superlative most bespectacled)

comparative more bespectacled · superlative most bespectacled

  1. Wearing spectacles (glasses).

    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
    3 more examples

    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

    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

    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

    Synonyms: beglassed, eyeglassed, four-eyed, glassesed, spectacled · Antonyms: unbespectacled, unspectacled

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveWearing spectacles (glasses).

More synonyms by meaning

adjectivewearing, or having the face adorned with, eyeglasses or an eyeglass

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

Translations

Bulgarian очила́т
  • очила́т (očilát)wearing spectacles (glasses)
Chinese Mandarin 有戴眼鏡 /有戴眼镜
  • 有戴眼鏡 /有戴眼镜 (yǒu dài yǎnjìng)wearing spectacles (glasses)
Czech brýlatý, brejlatý
  • brýlatýwearing spectacles (glasses)
  • brejlatýwearing spectacles (glasses)
Danish bebrillede
  • bebrilledewearing spectacles (glasses)
Dutch bebrild
  • bebrildwearing spectacles (glasses)
Finnish silmälasipäinen
  • silmälasipäinenwearing spectacles (glasses)
French à lunettes, binoclard
  • à lunetteswearing spectacles (glasses)
  • binoclardwearing spectacles (glasses)
  • bésiclardwearing spectacles (glasses)
German eine Brille tragend, bebrillt
  • eine Brille tragendwearing spectacles (glasses)
  • bebrilltwearing spectacles (glasses)
  • brilletragendwearing spectacles (glasses)
Greek διοπτροφόρος
  • διοπτροφόρος (dioptrofóros)wearing spectacles (glasses)
Hungarian szemüveges
  • szemüvegeswearing spectacles (glasses)
Indonesian berkacamata, memakai kacamata
  • berkacamatawearing spectacles (glasses)
  • memakai kacamatawearing spectacles (glasses)
Italian occhialuto
  • occhialutowearing spectacles (glasses)
Malay berkaca mata, memakai kaca mata
  • berkaca matawearing spectacles (glasses)
  • memakai kaca matawearing spectacles (glasses)
  • bercermin matawearing spectacles (glasses)
  • memakai cermin matawearing spectacles (glasses)
Māori whai mōwhiti, karu mōwhiti
  • whai mōwhitiwearing spectacles (glasses)
  • karu mōwhitiwearing spectacles (glasses)
  • mau mō(w)hitiwearing spectacles (glasses)
Polish w okularach
  • w okularachwearing spectacles (glasses)
Portuguese com óculos, de óculos
  • com óculoswearing spectacles (glasses)
  • de óculoswearing spectacles (glasses)
Russian очкарик
  • очкарик (očkarik)wearing spectacles (glasses)
Spanish con gafas, que lleva gafas
  • con gafaswearing spectacles (glasses)
  • que lleva gafaswearing spectacles (glasses)
  • gafudowearing spectacles (glasses)
  • gafotaswearing spectacles (glasses)
  • anteojudowearing spectacles (glasses)
Swedish glasögonprydd
  • glasögonpryddwearing spectacles (glasses)
Turkish gözlüklü
  • gözlüklüwearing spectacles (glasses)
Cite this entry
APA

bespectacled. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bespectacled

MLA

“bespectacled.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bespectacled. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “bespectacled,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bespectacled.

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