bearded

Other forms of bearded

comparative

beardedder·

superlative

beardeddest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about bearded

What does bearded mean?

bearded means "having hair on the cheeks and chin". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bearded?

bearded has 2 syllables: bear-ded. The stress falls on "bear". In IPA it is /ˈbɪɹdəd/.

What is another word for bearded?

Close synonyms include barbate, bewhiskered, whiskered, whiskery. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bearded a common word?

bearded is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.