bespectacledとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From be- +‎ spectacle +‎ -ed.

発音

• IPA^(key): /bɪˈspɛktəkəld/

形容詞

bespectacled (comparative more bespectacled, superlative most bespectacled)

1. Wearing spectacles (glasses).

   Synonyms: beglassed, eyeglassed, (スラング, pejorative) four-eyed, (まれに) glassesed, spectacled

   Antonyms: unbespectacled, unspectacled

   • 1917 April, Jack London, chapter XXIV, in Jerry of the Islands, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC, page 329:

     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.

   • 2001, Salman Rushdie, Fury: A Novel, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 34:

     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.

   • 2002, Steven Barclay, A Place in the World Called Paris, page 149:

     The choristers were as bespectacled as the audience. Are Protestants more bespectacled than Catholics because of too much Bible reading?

関連する語

• spectacles