clean-shaven
- adjective
- /ˈklinˈʃeɪvən/
- After shaving his beard for the first time in years, he looked completely clean-shaven.
In a certain village there is a local law that all males must be clean shaven.
- In a certain village there is a local law that all males must be clean shaven.
- This guy that's laying in the street, he's fat, he's clean shaven, crazy.
- Yeah You know I I'm in a clean shaven these days.
- This guy was fat, clean shaven, crazy Albert Einstein hair going all, every direction.
Examples
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As he approaches, we recognize Joseph, now clean-shaven, wearing spectacles.
Fiction book (1997) -
His lean, sun-browned face was clean-shaven, and his brown hair was worn shoulder length.
Fiction book (1992) -
- I like you better clean-shaven.
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Chief, do you want me clean-shaven?
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You look younger, clean shaven.
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But at that time, - as far as I can recall, he was clean-shaven.
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Plebes are supposed to be clean-shaven.
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The old man is very thin, clean-shaven, but in need of a haircut.
Fiction book (2000) -
The set was muted, and the men wore gray suits and were clean-shaven and serious.
Fiction book (1994) -
Mr. Banks is clean-shaven.
Synonyms
Almost no hair on the face or head because it is cut close to the skin
Having no beard or other facial hair
Hair cut very close to the skin
Having a very smooth face and no beard
A person who has no hair on the face, like a young man without a beard
A person with very little hair on the face or head after a recent shave
Having no beard or long hairs near the nose
Antonyms
How Hairless
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Clean-shaven joins clean ('free from') and shaven (from shave, 'to cut hair off'), so it means a face that is smooth and without hair. That's why someone who is clean-shaven has no facial hair because they have just shaved.