[syn: bald, denuded, denudate]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Bald \Bald\ (b[add]ld), 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.
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On the bald top of an eminence. --Wordsworth.
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2. Destitute of ornament; unadorned; bare; literal.
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In the preface to his own bald translation.
--Dryden.
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3. Undisguised. " Bald egotism." --Lowell.
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4. Destitute of dignity or value; paltry; mean. [Obs.]
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5. (Bot.) Destitute of a beard or awn; as, bald wheat.
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6. (Zool.)
(a) Destitute of the natural covering.
(b) Marked with a white spot on the head; bald-faced.
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Bald buzzard (Zool.), the fishhawk or osprey.
Bald coot (Zool.), a name of the European coot (Fulica
atra), alluding to the bare patch on the front of the
head.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
baldheaded \bald"head`ed\, bald-headed \bald"-head`ed\, a.
Having a bald head; lacking hair on all or most of the scalp;
-- alsp called bald and bald-pated; as, a bald-headed
gentleman.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
bald
adj 1: with no effort to conceal; "a barefaced lie" [syn:
bald, barefaced]
2: lacking hair on all or most of the scalp; "a bald pate"; "a
bald-headed gentleman" [syn: bald, bald-headed, bald-
pated]
3: without the natural or usual covering; "a bald spot on the
lawn"; "bare hills" [syn: bald, denuded, denudate]
v 1: grow bald; lose hair on one's head; "He is balding already"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
106 Moby Thesaurus words for "bald":
Spartan, 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, 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