unbearded

Lacking facial hair

Unbearded means lacking a beard—either because one has never grown or because it has been shaved off.

The word often describes youth or inexperience, since beards are associated with maturity: an unbearded boy, unbearded recruits fresh from training.

It can also describe plants or grains that lack the bristly extensions called beards.

shaven

clean-shaven

Having no beard

groomed · clean-cut · shaved · barber · aftershave · depilated · fresh-faced · hairless · baby-faced

botanical

awnless

Without terminal bristles

grain · cereal · barley · rye · kernel · husk

Opposites
facial hair presence

unbeardedbearded

Having facial hair

bewhiskered · hirsute · goateed · whiskered · mustachioed

Family

beard, bearded, beardless, bearding

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