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Bald

Bald Meaning & Definition
Bald Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Bald?

[adj] lacking hair on all or most of the scalp; "a bald pate"; "a bald-headed gentleman"
[adj] without the natural or usual covering; "a bald spot on the lawn"; "bare hills"
[adj] with no effort to conceal; "a barefaced lie"
[v] grow bald; lose hair on one's head; "He is balding already"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Bald: bald-headed | bald-pated | bare | barefaced | denudate | denuded | hairless | open | overt | uncovered

Related Terms | Find terms related to Bald: acomous | ascetic | austere | bald-headed | bare | bare-ass | beardless | blank | candid | clean-shaven | clear | cleared | clipped | colorless | common | commonplace | cropped | depilous | direct | disclosed | dry | dull | exposed | frank | free | glabrous | gymnosophical | hairless | homely | homespun | in native buff | in puris naturalibus | in the altogether | in the buff | in the raw | lackluster | lean | lifeless | lusterless | matter-of-fact | naked | natural | naturistic | neat | nude | nudist | open | open as day | open to all | overt | peeled | plain | plain-speaking | plain-spoken | polled | prosaic | prosing | prosy | pure | raw | revealed | rustic | severe | shaven | sheared | simple | simple-speaking | smooth | smooth-faced | smooth-shaven | sober | spare | Spartan | stark | stark-naked | straightforward | tonsured | unadorned | unadulterated | unaffected | unarrayed | unclassified | unclogged | unclosed | uncolored | uncomplicated | uncovered | undecked | undecorated | undressed | unembellished | unfurbished | ungarnished | unhidden | unimaginative | unobstructed | unornamented | unpoetical | unrestricted | unsophisticated | unstopped | untrimmed | unvarnished | wide-open | with nothing on | without a stitch

See Also | grow | turn

Bald In Webster's Dictionary

\Bald\, a. [OE. balled, ballid, perh. the p. p. of ball to reduce to the roundness or smoothness of a ball, by removing hair. [root]85. But cf. W. bali whiteness in a horse's forehead.] 1. Destitute of the natural or common covering on the head or top, as of hair, feathers, foliage, trees, etc.; as, a bald head; a bald oak. On the bald top of an eminence. --Wordsworth. 2. Destitute of ornament; unadorned; bare; literal. In the preface to his own bald translation. --Dryden. 3. Undisguised. `` Bald egotism.'' --Lowell. 4. Destitute of dignity or value; paltry; mean. [Obs.] 5. (Bot.) Destitute of a beard or awn; as, bald wheat. 6. (Zo["o]l.) (a) Destitute of the natural covering. (b) Marked with a white spot on the head; bald-faced. {Bald buzzard} (Zo["o]l.), the fishhawk or osprey. {Bald coot} (Zo["o]l.), a name of the European coot ({Fulica atra}), alluding to the bare patch on the front of the head.

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