bespectacled

adj
/bɪˈspɛktəkəld/

Etymology

From be- + spectacle + -ed.

Definitions

  1. Wearing spectacles (glasses).

    • 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.
    • Solanka was uninterested in this bow-tied, bespectacled, markedly un-Jedi-knight-like young man, and as a former science-fiction buff despised the lowbrow space opera of the Star Wars cycle.
    • The choristers were as bespectacled as the audience. Are Protestants more bespectacled than Catholics because of too much Bible reading?

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA