English

Adjective

bespectacled ‎(comparative more bespectacled, superlative most bespectacled)

1. Wearing spectacles (glasses).
   • 1917, Jack London, Jerry of the Islands, ch. 24,

     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.

   • 2002, Steven Barclay, A Place in the World Called Paris, page 149

     The choristers were as bespectacled as the audience. Are Protestants more bespectacled than Catholics because of too much Bible reading?

Synonyms

• four-eyed (slang, pejorative), spectacled

Related terms

• spectacles

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