spectacled

1. 1.

   wearing, or having the face adorned with, eyeglasses or an eyeglass

   “a bespectacled grandmother”

   “the monocled gentleman”

   Synonymsbespectacledmonocled

   Similaradorned

Other forms of spectacled

comparative

spectacledder·

superlative

spectacleddest·

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 spectacled

What does spectacled mean?

spectacled means "wearing, or having the face adorned with, eyeglasses or an eyeglass".

How many syllables are in spectacled?

spectacled has 2 syllables: specta-cled. The stress falls on "specta".

What is another word for spectacled?

Close synonyms include bespectacled, monocled. 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 spectacled a common word?

spectacled is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.