Bearded

Quick meaning: Bearded is an adjective meaning Having a beard; involving a beard.

Meaning

Having a beard; involving a beard.

More Meanings

1. Having a fringe or appendage resembling a beard in some way (often followed by with).
2. (in combination) Having a beard (or similar appendage) of a specified type.
3. (heraldry) Having barbs of a certain color.
4. (informal, botany, horticulture) Ellipsis of bearded iris.
5. simple past and past participle of beard
6. Of an axe: having the lower portion of the axehead extending the cutting edge significantly below the width of the butt, thus providing a wide cutting surface while keeping overall weight low.

Example Sentences

bearded mussel

Good sir, be a man: / Think every bearded fellow that's but yoked / May draw with you:

[B]ut the joyous sea / Shall be our raiment, and the bearded star / Shoot arrows at our pleasure!

This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, / Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, / Stand like Druids of eld [...]

Word Forms

• beardeds

Synonyms for bearded

Depending on context, synonyms include barbigerous, be-bearded, awny, barbate, bristly, awned.

Antonyms for bearded

Common opposites include beardless.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include awned, whiskered, awny, whiskery, bewhiskered, barbate.

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