beardless

English

Etymology

From Middle English bērdlēs, from Old English beardlēas (“beardless”), from Proto-West Germanic *bardalaus (“beardless”), equivalent to beard +‎ -less. Cognate with Scots berdles (“beardless”), Saterland Frisian boartloos (“beardless”), West Frisian burdleas (“beardless”), Dutch baardeloos (“beardless”), German Low German baartlos (“beardless”), German bartlos (“beardless”).

Pronunciation

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Adjective

beardless (comparative more beardless, superlative most beardless)

1. Lacking a beard.
   • 1987 February 1, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, volume 14, number 28, page 13:

     Distinctly slender (willowy), quietly fem/androgynous, beardless chap who can wear clothes and speak well is what I'm hoping to find.

2. (by extension, of a male) Not having reached puberty or manhood; youthful.
   • 1596, Shakespeare, King John, Act 4, Scene 1:

     shall a beardless boy,
     Cocker’d silken wanton, brave our fields,
     And flesh his spirit in a warlike soil,
     Mocking the air with colours idly spread,
     And find no check?

3. Lacking an awn.

   beardless wheat

4. (ornithology) Lacking a beard (a defined patch of feathers below the beak).

Derived terms

• beardlessness

Related terms

• beard
• bearded
• beardedness
• debeard
• unbeard

Translations

without a beard

• Arabic: أَمْرَد m (ʔamrad)
• Armenian: անմորուք (hy) (anmorukʻ)
• Azerbaijani: saqqalsız
• Belarusian: безбаро́ды (bjezbaródy)
• Catalan: barbamec (ca)
• Czech: bezvousý
• Dutch: baardloos (nl)
• Esperanto: senbarba
• Faroese: óskeggjaður
• Finnish: parraton (fi)
• French: imberbe (fr)
• Galician: lampiño, barbalampiño, imberbe (gl)
• Georgian: უწვერო (uc̣vero), უწვერულვაშო (uc̣verulvašo)
• German: bartlos, ohne Bart
• Greek: αγένειος (el) (agéneios), απώγων (el) (apógon)

  Ancient: ἀπώγων (apṓgōn)

• Ido: senbarba (io)
• Irish: amhulchach (literary)
• Italian: imberbe (it), sbarbato (it)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: کۆسە (kose)

  Northern Kurdish: kose (ku)

  Southern Kurdish: کووسە (kûse)

• Latin: imberbis
• Macedonian: ќос (ḱos), голобрад (golobrad)
• Middle English: berdles
• Pali: amassuka
• Polish: bezbrody (pl)
• Portuguese: sem barba, imberbe (pt), lampinho (pt)
• Russian: безборо́дый (ru) (bezboródyj)
• Serbo-Croatian: golobrad (sh), ćosav
• Spanish: imberbe (es), barbilampiño, lampiño (es), sin barba
• Turkish: sakalsız (tr)
• Turkmen: sakgalsyz
• Ukrainian: безборо́дий (uk) (bezboródyj)

not having reached manhood

• Finnish: siloposkinen
• Middle English: berdles
• Polish: gołobrody (pl)
• Spanish: inmaduro (es), mancebo (es), imberbe (es)

lacking awn

• Finnish: vihneetön
• Irish: maol
• Polish: bezostny (pl), bezościsty (dated)

Anagrams

• breadless, dressable