bespectacled
adj/bɪˈspɛktəkəld/
Etymology From be- + spectacle + -ed.
1
Wearing spectacles (glasses).
- The Commissioner, ascetic-looking, an Oxford graduate, narrow-shouldered and elderly, tired-eyed and bespectacled like the scholar he was, like the scientist he was, shrugged his shoulders.1917 April, Jack London, chapter XXIV, in Jerry of the Islands, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC, page 329:
- Solanka was uninterested in this bow-tied, bespectacled, markedly un-Jedi-knight-like young man, and as a former science-fiction buff despised the lowbrow space opera of the Star Wars cycle.2001, Salman Rushdie, Fury: A Novel, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 34:
2 more examples
- The choristers were as bespectacled as the audience. Are Protestants more bespectacled than Catholics because of too much Bible reading?2002, Steven Barclay, A Place in the World Called Paris, page 149:
- What caught my eye, however, was an appearance on state-run television in Beijing of DeepSeek’s bespectacled, mop-topped CEO, Liang Wenfeng, who met with China’s No. 2 official – Premier Li Qiang.2025 December 29, Ann Scott Tyson, “In 2025, China proved its innovation prowess. But are some workers getting left behind?”, in The Christian Science Monitor:
- Related terms
- spectacles, begoggled