bald
adjective
having little or no hair on the scalp.
baldness
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a word derived from
bald.
Example Sentences
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The public-transit authority in Boston is paying a nearly $500,000 settlement stemming from a team-building dinner where the popular general manager poked fun at his own baldness and pulled the hair of an employee.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
The announcement Monday unfortunately isn’t a win for those with androgenetic alopecia, the much more common form of hair loss known as male-pattern baldness.
From Barron's ● Apr. 20, 2026
Androgenetic alopecia, also known as male pattern baldness or female pattern hair loss, is one of the most widespread causes of hair thinning in both men and women.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2025
In contrast, a running joke about the Donald obsessing about his hair has a fun, if gleefully nasty payoff in an episode involving Trump getting his head surgically stapled to impede his male pattern baldness.
From Salon ● Nov. 10, 2024
Before her walk she would have flaunted her baldness beneath a golden crown.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
