unspectacled

C2+ Topic:Clothing & Appearance
US /ʌnˈspɛk.tə.kəld/ UK /ʌnˈspek.tə.kəld/
adj

Meanings

  1. 1
    adj

    not wearing spectacles or eyeglasses

    Without his usual frames, his unspectacled face looked strangely unfamiliar.

Thesaurus

Synonyms
1 adj · not wearing spectacles or... unbespectacledwithout glasses
Opposites
spectacledbespectacled
Word family

Etymology

Formed from the negative prefix un- + spectacled. Spectacled comes from spectacles, the plural name for eyeglasses; spectacle entered Middle English through Anglo-French from Latin spectaculum, from spectare, "to watch or look at."

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