• Beardless

    Origin

    beard + -less

    Full definition of beardless

    Adjective

    beardless

    1. Lacking a beard.
    2. (by extension, of a male) Not having reached puberty or manhood; youthful.
      • 1596 Shakespeare, King John,''shall a beardless boy,''Cocker'd silken wanton, brave our fields,''And flesh his spirit in a warlike soil,''Mocking the air with colours idly spread,''And find no check?
    3. Destitute of an awn.beardless wheat
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