Meanings
comparative more freckled · superlative most freckled
- Having freckles; covered with freckles.
A smile grew across Jim's freckled face.
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Pro. […]Then was this Iſland / (Saue for the Son, that he^([sic]) did littour heere, / A frekelld whelpe, hag-borne) not honour'd with / A humane ſhape.
1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 4At any other time Jessamy would have laughed at the expressions that chased each other over his freckled face: crossness left over from his struggle with the baby; incredulity; distress; and finally delight.
1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, →ISBN, page 122
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiverelating to or covered with or resembling freckles
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Middle Englishfrekled
- Englishfreckled
Inherited from Middle English frekled; equivalent to freckle + -ed.
More words from Middle English
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Catalan pigat
- pigathaving freckles
Danish fregnet
- fregnethaving freckles
Dutch sproetig, sproeterig
- sproetighaving freckles
- sproeterighaving freckles
Finnish pisamainen
- pisamainenhaving freckles
German sommersprossig
- sommersprossighaving freckles
Hebrew מנומש
- מנומש (m'numásh)having freckles
Hungarian szeplős
- szeplőshaving freckles
Italian lentigginoso
- lentigginosohaving freckles
Latin sparsus, lentīginōsus
- sparsushaving freckles
- lentīginōsushaving freckles
Māori kōpatapata, kōtiwhatiwha
- kōpatapatahaving freckles
- kōtiwhatiwhahaving freckles
Norwegian Bokmål fregnet, fregnete
- fregnethaving freckles
- fregnetehaving freckles
Polish piegowaty
- piegowatyhaving freckles
Portuguese sardento
- sardentohaving freckles
Romanian pistruiat
- pistruiathaving freckles
Russian весну́шчатый, конопа́тый
- весну́шчатый (vesnúščatyj)having freckles
- конопа́тый (konopátyj)having freckles
Slovak pehavý
- pehavýhaving freckles
Spanish pecoso
- pecosohaving freckles
Swedish fräknig
- fräknighaving freckles
Cite this entry
freckled. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/freckled
“freckled.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/freckled. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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