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BALD
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Dictionary entry overview: What does bald mean?
• BALD (adjective)
The adjective BALD has 3 senses:
1. with no effort to conceal
2. lacking hair on all or most of the scalp
3. without the natural or usual covering
Familiarity information: BALD used as an adjective is uncommon.
• BALD (verb)
The verb BALD has 1 sense:
1. grow bald; lose hair on one's head
Familiarity information: BALD used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Declension: comparative and superlative |
Superlative: baldest
Sense 1
Meaning:
With no effort to conceal
Synonyms:
bald; barefaced
Context example:
a barefaced lie
Similar:
open; overt (open and observable; not secret or hidden)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Lacking hair on all or most of the scalp
Synonyms:
bald; bald-headed; bald-pated
Context example:
a bald-headed gentleman
Similar:
hairless (having no hair or fur)
Derivation:
baldness (the condition of having no hair on the top of the head)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Without the natural or usual covering
Synonyms:
Context example:
bare hills
Similar:
bare (lacking its natural or customary covering)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Grow bald; lose hair on one's head
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Context example:
He is balding already
Hypernyms (to "bald" is one way to...):
grow; turn (pass into a condition gradually, take on a specific property or attribute; become)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Sentence example:
They bald
Context examples
O'Brien, though still quite a young man, was very bald.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
It may result in bald spots or spread to the entire scalp or the entire epidermis.
(Alopecia, NCI Thesaurus)
A. solmonicida is found in freshwater and marine environments and causes furunculosis in fish and bald sea urchin disease.
(Aeromonas salmonicida, NCI Thesaurus)
The old man nodded as I entered the room, and he pushed his spectacles far up on his bald forehead.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A high bald head had a small velvet smoking-cap poised coquettishly upon one side of its pink curve.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“But, father,” quoth Alleyne, “the holy Elisha was bald, which brought down upon him the revilements of the wicked children.”
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
About five ft. seven in. in height; strongly built, sallow complexion, black hair, a little bald in the centre, bushy, black side-whiskers and moustache; tinted glasses, slight infirmity of speech.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He was an elderly man, with a thin, projecting nose, a high, bald forehead, and a huge grizzled moustache.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
You'd be as bald as a friar on the top of your head in twelve months, but for me.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The rhythm of “God Save the King” swelled through the babel, and I heard the old lines sung in a way that made you forget their bad rhymes and their bald sentiments.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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