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bald Definition

bald (bôld)

adjective

  1. having white fur or feathers on the head, as some animals and birds
  2. having no hair on all or part of the scalp
  3. not covered by natural growth bald hills
  4. having the tread nearly or completely worn off a bald tire
  5. bare; plain; unadorned the bald facts
  6. frank and blunt a bald statement

Etymology: ME balled, assoc. with bal, ball, but prob. ult. < IE base *bhel-, gleaming, white > Gr phalos, white, phalakros, bald, OPrus ballo, forehead

bald Related Forms

bald′ly adverb bald′·ness noun

bald Synonyms

bald

modif.

  1. Without natural covering; usually, without hair

    hairless, baldheaded, depilated, tonsured, shaven, shaved, bare, featherless, treeless, glabrous, shiny, smooth, baldpated, hairless as an egg*, like a billiard ball*; see also naked 1.

    Antonyms hairy*, covered*, hirsute. *

  2. Not adorned, elaborated, or disguised

    plain, blunt, simple, forthright; see abrupt 2, frank, modest 2. See syn. study at naked.

bald Usage Examples

Modifying Another Word

  • completely: Some will sit all alone some will line in pairs, some will be completely bald whilst others might have hairs.
  • totally: This pecking, combined with feather loss from rubbing against the cage bars, can result in almost totally bald birds.
  • almost: Bird's eye view of an almost bald man's head.
  • rather: The brow was rather bald, and the eyes bright and blue, which Devine had last seen obscured with a broad straw hat.
  • quite: Sometimes they can be quite bald statements which people find harder to take.
  • very: A refusal notice under clause 15 will be very bald.

Preposition: on

top: He was around 6ft tall and skinny and had light brown hair at the sides but was bald on top.

Preposition: as

  • coot: I reckon in three years the man will be as bald as a coot.
  • egg: I was born with a full crop of hair, he was as bald as an egg for six months.

Modifies a noun

  • eagle: Many bald eagles roost among the trees along the side of the marsh.
  • bloke: Top bald bloke on the sleeve for the ladies too!
  • pate: With his bald pate, he looked like his head had been put on upside down.
  • cypress: Bald cypress live IN water, so overwatering is not the problem.
  • patch: The sucker is fixed to a bald patch on top of the skull.
  • forehead: He was an elderly man, with a thin, projecting nose, a high, bald forehead, and a huge grizzled mustache.

Used with adjective complement

  • go: He looked at a skull going bald, on top a few greasy strands smeared over like a bar code.
  • become: In a girl the condition has to be inherited from both parents for her to run any risk at all of becoming bald.
  • look: The litany, for example, looks bald to a degree in the music copy.
  • nest: Of nesting bald also made their where darkness covers.
  • feel: For the first time in my life I felt bald.