beardless

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Adjective

beardless

1. Lacking a beard.
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. Destitute of an awn.

   beardless wheat

Related terms

• beard
• bearded
• beardedness
• debeard

Translations

• French: imberbe
• German: bartlos, ohne Bart
• Italian: imberbe, sbarbato
• Portuguese: sem barba, imberbe
• Russian: безборо́дый
• Spanish: imberbe, barbilampiño, lampiño, sin barba

Translations

• Spanish: inmaduro, mancebo, imberbe

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