SMOOTH-FACED

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does smooth-faced mean? 

• SMOOTH-FACED (adjective)
  The adjective SMOOTH-FACED has 1 sense:

1. lacking hair on the face

  Familiarity information: SMOOTH-FACED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SMOOTH-FACED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Lacking hair on the face

Synonyms:

beardless; smooth-faced

Context example:

a smooth-faced boy of 14 years

Similar:

hairless (having no hair or fur)

 Context examples 

I had the hint from Holmes that this smooth-faced pawnbroker’s assistant was a formidable man—a man who might play a deep game.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

To this rule, Dr. Jekyll was no exception; and as he now sat on the opposite side of the fire—a large, well-made, smooth-faced man of fifty, with something of a stylish cast perhaps, but every mark of capacity and kindness—you could see by his looks that he cherished for Mr. Utterson a sincere and warm affection.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Mr. Jorkins was not by any means the awful creature one might have expected, but a large, mild, smooth-faced man of sixty, who took so much snuff that there was a tradition in the Commons that he lived principally on that stimulant, having little room in his system for any other article of diet.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)