bald
having little or no hair on the scalp: a bald head;a bald person.
destitute of some natural growth or covering: a bald mountain.
lacking detail; bare; plain; unadorned: a bald prose style.
open; undisguised: a bald lie.
Zoology. having white on the head: the bald eagle.
Automotive. (of a tire) having the tread completely worn away.
to become bald.
(often initial capital letter)Chiefly South Midland and Southern U.S. a treeless mountaintop or area near the top: often used as part of a proper name.
Origin of bald
1Other words for bald
Other words from bald
- baldish, adjective
- baldly, adverb
- baldness, noun
- half-bald, adjective
- sem·i·bald, adjective
- sem·i·bald·ly, adverb
- sem·i·bald·ness, noun
Words that may be confused with bald
- bald , balled , bawled
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How to use bald in a sentence
One day, my only companions were a pair of soaring bald eagles.
In Big Sky country, a pandemic-era fly-fishing getaway | Carl Fincke | January 21, 2021 | Washington PostOur bald, bar-coded protagonist isn’t running away from boulders or fireballs like Nathan Drake.
‘Hitman 3’ is the grandest stage for your own stories, even as it tries to end its own | Gene Park | January 19, 2021 | Washington PostFor the past two years, I appeared on that card completely bald as a result of the chemotherapy I underwent to eliminate the cancer in my right lung.
Rep. Watson Coleman: I’m 75. I had cancer. I got covid-19 because my GOP colleagues dismiss facts. | Bonnie Watson Coleman | January 12, 2021 | Washington PostTwo of the finest conifers — the dawn redwood and the bald cypress — lose their needles in winter.
Winter wonders: Conifers revive the sleeping garden. But remember, less is more. | Adrian Higgins | December 2, 2020 | Washington PostAt the northern end, the DuPont Environmental Education Center is home to a variety of critters, including bald eagles, muskrats, red foxes and belted kingfishers.
In Delaware, a new Instagram-friendly driving trail spotlights local artists and sites | Andrea Sachs | November 6, 2020 | Washington Post
They did not baldly call for a coup, but they did exhort soldiers to “take a stand.”
Thailand’s Prime Minister Toppled by ‘The Iron Triangle’ | Lennox Samuels | May 7, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe Warren Commission Report baldly tried to set things right with an understandable narrative of cause and effect.
The JFK Assassination: The Long Weekend That Never Ended | Malcolm Jones | November 1, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTSo baldly clear is this realization that I might as well be acknowledging that I will never have eight legs and spin a web.
Chavez could be declared "temporarily absent," a narrowly legal if baldly political maneuver to forestall succession.
If Hugo Chavez Succumbs, a Dangerous Limbo for Venezuela | Mac Margolis | January 6, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThe pedophile is often imagined as the dishevelled old man baldly offering candy to preschoolers.
"We mustn't put it too baldly," observed Southend, dangling his eyeglass.
Tristram of Blent | Anthony HopeThe evils of this astonishing system could not be even baldly catalogued in a lifetime.
The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce | Ambrose BierceThen just in front of them the priest in his white vestment, standing exposed, and just baldly beginning an address.
Sea and Sardinia | D. H. LawrenceHe was too amazed to do anything but answer her literally and baldly.
Rough-Hewn | Dorothy CanfieldIt was gall to the conscienceless junior to be thus baldly snubbed.
Marjorie Dean, College Senior | Pauline Lester
British Dictionary definitions for bald
/ (bɔːld) /
having no hair or fur, esp (of a man) having no hair on all or most of the scalp
lacking natural growth or covering
plain or blunt: a bald statement
bare or simple; unadorned
Also: baldfaced (of certain birds and other animals) having white markings on the head and face
(of a tyre) having a worn tread
Origin of bald
1Derived forms of bald
- baldish, adjective
- baldly, adverb
- baldness, noun
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