HAIRLESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hairless mean? 

• HAIRLESS (adjective)
  The adjective HAIRLESS has 1 sense:

1. having no hair or fur

  Familiarity information: HAIRLESS used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HAIRLESS (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having no hair or fur

Context example:

a Mexican Hairless is about the size of a fox terrier and hairless except for a tufts on the head and tail

Similar:

bald; bald-headed; bald-pated (lacking hair on all or most of the scalp)

balding (getting bald)

beardless; smooth-faced (lacking hair on the face)

depilatory (able to remove hair or render hairless)

depilous (completely hairless)

glabrescent (lacking hair or a similar growth or tending to become hairless)

glabrous (having no hair or similar growth; smooth)

naked-muzzled (having a muzzle that is hairless)

naked-tailed (having a tail that is hairless)

nonhairy (without hair)

tonsured (having a bald spot either shaved or natural)

Antonym:

hairy (having or covered with hair)

Derivation:

hairlessness (the condition of being void of hair)

 Context examples 

The Hairless Chinese Crested is a variety of the Chinese Crested breed that is hairless except for its feet, head and tail.

(Hairless Chinese Crested, NCI Thesaurus)

I have already told you, have I not, that one was elderly, with a beard, and the others young, hairless lads.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

An inbred mouse strain that arose in a non-inbred hairless stock maintained by Hummel in 1960; maintained by Le.

(ATEB/Le Mouse, NCI Thesaurus)

The Chinese Crested comes in two distinct varieties: one is hairless except for its feet, head and tail, and called the Hairless; the other is called the Powder Puff.

(Chinese Crested, NCI Thesaurus)

Their faces were hairless, well formed, and good-humored.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The brown rat has a coarse brown or black coat with a pale underside, and a long nearly hairless tail.

(BN, Rat Strain, NCI Thesaurus)

He was a young man with a clear, hairless face, a long, thin nose, and rather nut-cracker jaws.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A hairless Sprague-Dawley rat from the Charles River affiliate IFFA Credo (Labresle, France).

(OFA SD, Rat Strain, NCI Thesaurus)

Is a hairless infant to raise his tongue against me, when I have sung in every fair from Tweed to Trent, and have twice been named aloud by the High Court of the Minstrels at Beverley?

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They came and went, resided in the populous kennels, or lived obscurely in the recesses of the house after the fashion of Toots, the Japanese pug, or Ysabel, the Mexican hairless,—strange creatures that rarely put nose out of doors or set foot to ground.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)