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bead·y

 (bē′dē)
adj. bead·i·er, bead·i·est
1. Small, round, and shiny: beady eyes.
2. Decorated or covered with beads.
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beady

(ˈbiːdɪ)
adj, beadier or beadiest
1. small, round, and glittering: used esp of eyes
2. resembling or covered with beads
ˈbeadily adv
ˈbeadiness n
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bead•y

(ˈbi di)

adj. bead•i•er, bead•i•est.
1. beadlike; small, round, and glittering: beady eyes.
2. covered with or full of beads.
[1820–30]
bead′i•ly, adv.
bead′i•ness, n.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adj.1.beady - small and round and shiny like a shiny bead or buttonbeady - small and round and shiny like a shiny bead or button; "bright beady eyes"; "black buttony eyes"
beadlike, buttonlike, buttony
bright - emitting or reflecting light readily or in large amounts; "the sun was bright and hot"; "a bright sunlit room"
2.beady - covered with beads or jewels or sequinsbeady - covered with beads or jewels or sequins
gemmed, jeweled, jewelled, sequined, spangled, spangly
adorned, decorated - provided with something intended to increase its beauty or distinction
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beady

adjective bright, powerful, concentrated, sharp, intense, shining, glittering, gleaming, glinting She felt the old woman's beady eyes on her.
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Translations
خَرَزي الشَّكْل
korálkovitý
lítill og glitrandi
korálikový
küçük ve parlak

beady

[ˈbiːdɪ] ADJ beady eyes → ojos mpl pequeños y brillantes
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

beady

[ˈbiːdi] adj
beady eyes → yeux mpl de fouine
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

beady

adj beady eye → waches Auge; I’ve got my beady eye on you (inf) → ich beobachte Sie genau!
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

beady

[ˈbiːdɪ] adj beady eyes → occhi mpl piccoli e penetranti
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

bead

(biːd) noun
a little ball of glass etc strung with others in a necklace etc. She's wearing two strings of wooden beads.
ˈbeady adjective
(of eyes) small and bright. the beady eyes of the bird.
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"I think that there is nothing else of importance here, but I will look." He whipped out his lens and a tape measure, and hurried about the room on his knees, measuring, comparing, examining, with his long thin nose only a few inches from the planks, and his beady eyes gleaming and deep-set like those of a bird.
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