Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

beardless

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 2.07 in modern English

Syllables: beard-less
IPA

12

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Lacking a beard.

adj

Not having reached puberty or manhood; youthful.

adj

Lacking an awn.

adj

Lacking a beard (a defined patch of feathers below the beak).

Example Sentences

"A eunuch is a negative creature. A beardless Moslem is contemptuously designated as manless."
"Distinctly slender (willowy), quietly fem/androgynous, beardless chap who can wear clothes and speak well is what I'm hoping to find."
"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?"
"beardless wheat"

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”).

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: berdles, beardlēas, *bardalaus
Suffix: beard

Inflected Forms

more beardless (comparative) most beardless (superlative)

Derived Forms

beardlessness

Frequently Paired Words

beard bearded beardedness debeard unbeard

Synonyms

smooth-faced whiskerless

Questions

What does beardless mean?: Lacking a beard.
Where does beardless come from?: It is traced to Middle English.

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