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Wordnet 3.0

VERB (1)

1. grow bald; lose hair on one's head;
- Example: "He is balding already"


ADJECTIVE (3)

1. with no effort to conceal;
- Example: "a barefaced lie"
[syn: bald, barefaced]

2. lacking hair on all or most of the scalp;
- Example: "a bald pate"
- Example: "a bald-headed gentleman"
[syn: bald, bald-headed, bald-pated]

3. without the natural or usual covering;
- Example: "a bald spot on the lawn"
- Example: "bare hills"
[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. [1913 Webster] On the bald top of an eminence. --Wordsworth. [1913 Webster] 2. Destitute of ornament; unadorned; bare; literal. [1913 Webster] In the preface to his own bald translation. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 3. Undisguised. " Bald egotism." --Lowell. [1913 Webster] 4. Destitute of dignity or value; paltry; mean. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] 5. (Bot.) Destitute of a beard or awn; as, bald wheat. [1913 Webster] 6. (Zool.) (a) Destitute of the natural covering. (b) Marked with a white spot on the head; bald-faced. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster]
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. [1913 Webster +PJC]
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