bald
About 3.10 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adjective Having little or no hair, fur, or feathers.
My uncle is bald.
- adjective Having little or no hair on the head, or having a large area of bare scalp on top of the head.
a bald man with a moustache
- adjective Of animals, having areas (of fur or plumage) that are colored white, especially on the head.
- adjective Of hair, nonexistent.
- adjective Lacking any covering.
The bald cypress is a tree that loses its leaves in winter.
- adjective Of a tyre, whose surface is worn away.
- adjective Of a statement or account, unembellished.
- adjective Of a statement, without evidence or support being provided.
Similar words
hairless uncovered bare barefaced overt denudate open denuded bald-headed bald-pated
Often followed by
head eagle and eagles man spot mountain pate as
Word family
balded balder baldest balding baldish baldly baldness baldnesses balds
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