nosed

36 6.3

Having a nose of a certain shape or colour

adjective
/noʊzd/

: de nariz

With his hook-nosed appearance, he was easily recognizable among the crowd of people.
long-nosed
red-nosed
hairy-nosed

I put my heart on to transforming myself into Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer because nobody needs that in their lives.

Examples

Seated behind the lawyers are two guys with hard-nosed corporate looks about them.

Fiction book (1995)
Binstock found it hard to believe that Sorkin, hard-nosed, sharp-edged Sorkin, had actually read poetry.

Fiction book (1995)
The Bush administration's China policy, which was once confrontational, has evolved into a hard-nosed but cooperative dialogue.

Academic text (2007)
The sharp-nosed dog sniffed eagerly as it searched for buried treasures in the sand.
Her soft-nosed darts flew accurately towards the target, making them perfect for newcomers.

Antonyms

noseless

1 8.9

Having no nose

Compounds

snub-nosed

4 6.1

Having a short, round nose or tip

hook-nosed

3 8.0

A person with a long curved nose like a bird's beak

snotty-nosed

Offensive

2 8.2

A person, often a child, who is rude and acts as if better than others

snot-nosed brat

Offensive

2 9.9

A rude child who annoys other people

bottle-nosed dolphin

1 3.5

A large intelligent sea animal with a rounded forehead and a long beak

sharp-nosed

1 4.7

With a pointed nose or front, for example a plane

pug-nosed

1 7.3

Having a short, flat nose that turns up slightly

soft-nosed

Specialized

1 8.2

A bullet with a soft tip that expands when it hits something to cause more damage

hard-nosed approach

1 5.8

A practical, strict way to handle problems to get results

short-nosed

1 5.2

An animal or object that has a short, blunt nose

leaf-nosed bat

1 7.9

A bat with a leaflike flap of skin on its nose that helps it find food at night

cow-nosed ray

Specialized

1 9.3

A large flat fish with a broad rounded head like a cow's nose

star-nosed mole

1 9.9

A small North American mole that lives in wet ground with a pink nose of many tentacles to find food

bottle-nosed whale

1 7.5

A whale with a rounded forehead that lives in the North Atlantic

cone-nosed bug

1 9.9

A large insect that sucks blood and can spread Chagas disease

leaf-nosed snake

1 9.1

A pale blotched desert snake with a short blunt nose from southwestern North America that is not dangerous to people

hog-nosed badger

Indian

9.7

A badger from Southeast Asia that uses a pig-like nose to dig

hog-nosed skunk

Specialized

9.8

A large skunk with a bare, pig-like snout and a white back and tail from southwestern North America

tube-nosed bat

Australian

9.8

A fruit bat with nostrils that stick out like small tubes

tube-nosed fruit bat

Australian

9.5

A bat that eats fruit and has tube-shaped nostrils that point away from each other

tube-nosed

9.9

Having nostrils shaped like small tubes

snot-nosed attitude

Offensive

9.9

A rude, immature way of behaving like a teenager

Surface Forms

nosed positive

Morphology

nosed = nose (transparent) = nose + ed

Formed by the productive adjectival use of '-ed' on the noun 'nose' to mean 'having a nose' (as in 'sharp-nosed'), so a learner who knows 'nose' can infer the meaning.

Etymology

Nosed comes from the simple word nose, meaning the 'front part of the face' or the part 'used for smelling', plus the ending -ed that shows 'having' or 'with'. So to call something nosed, as in black-nosed or sharp-nosed, is to say it 'has a nose' or a nose-like shape, which is why we use nosed to describe appearance.