bespectacled

5 5.8

A person who wears glasses

adjective
/bɪˈspɛktəkl̩d/

: con gafas

In his well-appointed Erbil office, this studious, bespectacled man cites a litany of oppressive acts.
bespectacled don

I want to preface this by giving my heartfelt thanks to Zach and Keith, my bespectacled baby brothers, my tall and tiny nerd.

Examples

The bespectacled teacher asked the students to raise their hands if they had questions.
In Besalu, they have a new guide, an earnest bespectacled young man with a purple necktie.

Fiction book (2002)
"We must be ruthless, but we must be fair," the bespectacled man said.

Fiction book (2002)
"Back here!" That was the bespectacled man's voice.

Fiction book (2002)
The bespectacled man went on, "Those people talk all the way across Valmiera."

Fiction book (2002)
"Top that," a little bespectacled guy who hadn't spoken before said.

Fiction book (2000)
"Dr. Jay's pleasant, bespectacled face broke into a smile.

Fiction book (2001)
I watched my father's mild, bespectacled eyes take in an Angus herd.

Fiction book (1996)
He's a tall, dark-haired, gangly, bespectacled kid, no more than 19 or 20.

Fiction book (2001)
Eberhard, a sturdy, bespectacled, pleasant man in his mid-thirties, showed up, and Jochen left.

Fiction book (1995)

Synonyms

spectacled

vsbespectacled

1 5.0

To wear glasses to help see

has identical meaning but is a different written form

Surface Forms

bespectacled positive

Morphology

bespectacled = spectacled (transparent) = be + spectacle + ed

The meaning 'wearing spectacles' is derivable by adding the productive prefix 'be-' to the adjective 'spectacled' (from 'spectacle' + -ed).

Etymology

Bespectacled is made from the old prefix be- meaning 'with' and spectacle, from a root meaning 'to look', and it is related to familiar words like spectacles and inspect. So, bespectacled simply means 'wearing glasses'.