smooth-faced
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- adjective
- /smuːð-feɪst/
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afectado
- Peter Sampson, the waiter, was a small, smooth-faced youth of about twenty.
- smooth-faced man
Examples
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In the summer, he looked like a smooth-faced youth, full of energy and charm.
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"A brief silence fell, then a cheer, and the anthem was taken up, mostly by a group of smooth-faced young men in mismatched military uniforms.
Fiction book (2002) -
He'll go away to sea as a smooth-faced boy and he'll come back with a long beard and a parrot.
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They were young men, smooth-faced and a little shy.
Fiction book (1991) -
"He was a rotund, smooth-faced man of mature years, but strangely ageless.
Fiction book (1990) -
"Those the repeaters the bad-tempered feller was showing off to y'all yesterday?" asked Melvin Bean, a smooth-faced private with a light, clear voice.
Fiction book (1992) -
He was smooth-faced; remnants of fair hair straggled across his head, and fair whiskers, only slightly touched with gray, adorned the sides of his cheeks.
Fiction book (1993) -
The artist painted a portrait of a smooth-faced boy laughing in the sunlight.
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The smooth-faced young man nervously stepped onto the stage to deliver his speech.
Synonyms
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A person with no hair on the face, like on the chin and cheeks
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Having no beard or other facial hair
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Hair cut very close to the skin
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Having a very smooth face and no beard
A person with very little hair on the face or head after a recent shave
Antonyms
How Clean-Shaven
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word smooth-faced joins the simple words smooth ('even, not rough') and face ('the front of the head'). It pictures a face with no hair, so it means 'clean-shaven' or someone who looks very young.