bearded

Meanings

Noun

• A bearded iris.

Verb

• Past of beard

Adjective

• Having a beard; involving a beard.
• Having a fringe or appendage resembling a beard in some way (often followed by with).
• (Of an axe) having the lower portion of the axehead extending the cutting edge significantly below the width of the butt, thus providing a wide cutting surface while keeping overall weight low.
• (in combination) Having a beard (or similar appendage) of a specified type.

Related

Similar words

• bristly
• awny
• barbate
• barbed

Opposite words

• beardless

Origin

• From beard + -ed.
• From Middle English berded, from Old English ġebearded, ġebeardede, ġebierd, ġebierde, from Proto-Germanic *bardidaz, equivalent to beard + -ed. Cognate with Dutch bebaarde, Middle Low German bārt, archaic German gebartet.