spectacled
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5.0
- adjective
- /ˈspɛktəˌkəld/
- Men in standard blue prison garb stand to either side of the spectacled prison chaplain, who cradles the Bible between steady palms.
Examples
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The doctor was young, thin-haired, spectacled, sour-looking, and not courtly at all, like the one in the video.
Fiction book (1993) -
A bony, spectacled woman with painfully short black hair and paper-white skin.
Fiction book (1998) -
I I do need a spectacled person on my team, so I'm going to have to go with Noah.
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Jeff, a thick-spectacled homunculus from the Wollagong Film Studies Program, proclaimed, "Endless self-pleasuring."
Fiction book (1996) -
"Life Is Hard," it stated flatly, next to a starkly lit picture of a spectacled man gazing at some unseen inward blankness.
Fiction book (1995) -
These included ground squirrels, lemmings, ptarmigan, snow owls, arctic terns, and Steller and spectacled eiders.
Academic text (2007) -
Roy, four or five years younger, sits with a three-core-monte gang, consisting of a dealer, a spectacled shill beside him, Roy facing the dealer, a roper next to Roy.
Fiction book (1990) -
The spectacled child read her favorite book in the corner of the library.
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He is a spectacled gentleman who always carries a briefcase.
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The spectacled teacher patiently explained the complex math problem to the students.
Synonyms
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9.8
A rude name for a person who wears glasses
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5.8
A person who wears glasses
Compounds
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9.9
A reptile like a small crocodile with bony ridges above the eyes from Mexico to Argentina
Surface Forms
Morphology
spectacled = spectacle (transparent) = spectacle + d
The meaning is directly derived from 'spectacle' with the suffix '-d' indicating the state of wearing spectacles.
Etymology
Spectacled comes from the root spect- from Latin spectare, meaning 'to look'. It is the same root as spectator and spectacle, so spectacled means wearing spectacles, the things you use for looking.