# beardless

> English word · Adjective · frequency rank #87,061

## Definitions
1. Lacking a beard.
2. Not having reached puberty or manhood; youthful.
3. Lacking an awn.
4. Lacking a beard (a defined patch of feathers below the beak).

## Etymology
From Middle English bērdlēs, from Old English beardlēas (“beardless”), from Proto-West Germanic *bardalaus (“beardless”), equivalent to beard + -less. Cognate with Scots berdles (“beardless”), Saterland Frisian boartloos (“beardless”), West Frisian burdleas (“beardless”), Dutch baardeloos (“beardless”), German Low German baartlos (“beardless”), German bartlos (“beardless”).

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/beardless