bearded

[beer-did]

adjective

1. having a beard.

2. having a hairlike growth or tuft, as certain wheats.

3. having a barb, as a fishhook.

Other Word Forms

• beardedness noun
• nonbearded adjective
• unbearded adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of bearded¹

First recorded in 1350–1400, bearded is from the Middle English word beerdid. See beard, -ed ³

Example Sentences

A large painting sits over the head of the table above the fireplace, of a bearded man dressed in a black robe.

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Just as when he’s poring over the playbook, the bearded bookworm reads with pen in hand or ready to note something on his phone.

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He is bearded, wearing black, and weighed down by grief.

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A giant golden statue of the president towered over a street and bearded male belly dancers wearing green headbands were pictured on the beach.

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The image of Ginsberg that vividly emerges is that of an angry, bushily bearded man, polemicizing about corporations and the Times’s malign influence, and often breaking out in spiritualist chanting, all to Hujar’s profound disinterest.

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Related Words

• shaggy 
• unshaven