Adjective: beardless
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more beardless |
| Superlative | most beardless |
Sample Sentences
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A eunuch is a negative creature. A beardless Moslem is contemptuously designated as manless. [1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page iii:]
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Distinctly slender (willowy), quietly fem/androgynous, beardless chap who can wear clothes and speak well is what I'm hoping to find. [1987 February 1, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, volume 14, number 28, page 13:]
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shall a beardless boy,
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Cocker’d silken wanton, brave our fields,
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And flesh his spirit in a warlike soil,
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Mocking the air with colours idly spread,
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And find no check? [1596, Shakespeare, King John, Act 4, Scene 1:]
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beardless wheat
Adjectives inflected like beardless
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
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”). See: Dutch Adjectives '
baardeloos', German Adjectives '
bartlos'.