English Explanatory Dictionary

beardless

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Lacking a beard.
  2. Not having reached puberty or manhood; youthful.
  3. Lacking an awn.
  4. Lacking a beard (a defined patch of feathers below the beak).

Pronunciation

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-beardless.wav

Word forms

beardless more beardless most beardless

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”).

Synonyms

smooth-faced

Related words

beard bearded beardedness debeard unbeard

Derived words

beardlessness

Translations

Arabic: أَمْرَد Armenian: անմորուք Azerbaijani: saqqalsız Belarusian: безбаро́ды Catalan: barbamec Czech: bezvousý Dutch: baardloos Esperanto: senbarba Faroese: óskeggjaður Finnish: parraton Finnish: vihneetön French: imberbe Galician: lampiño Galician: barbalampiño Galician: imberbe Georgian: უწვერო Georgian: უწვერულვაშო German: bartlos German: ohne Bart Greek: αγένειος Greek: απώγων Ancient Greek: ἀπώγων Ido: senbarba Irish: amhulchach Irish: maol Italian: imberbe Italian: sbarbato Japanese: ひげなし Central Kurdish: کۆسە Northern Kurdish: kose Southern Kurdish: کووسە Latin: imberbis Lithuanian: bebarzdis Macedonian: ќос Macedonian: голобрад Middle English: berdles Pali: amassuka Polish: bezbrody Polish: bezostny Polish: bezościsty Portuguese: sem barba Portuguese: imberbe Portuguese: lampinho Russian: безборо́дый Serbo-Croatian: golobrad Serbo-Croatian: ćosav Spanish: imberbe Spanish: barbilampiño Spanish: lampiño Spanish: sin barba Spanish: carilampiño Spanish: desbarbado Turkish: sakalsız Turkmen: sakgalsyz Ukrainian: безборо́дий Welsh: di-farf
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