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
• BALD (adjective)
Meaning:
With no effort to conceal
Synonyms:
bald; barefaced
Context example:
a barefaced lie
Similar:
open; overt (open and observable; not secret or hidden)
Meaning:
Lacking hair on all or most of the scalp
Synonyms:
bald-headed; bald-pated; bald
Context examples:
a bald pate / a bald-headed gentleman
Similar:
hairless (having no hair or fur)
Meaning:
Without the natural or usual covering
Synonyms:
denudate; denuded; bald
Context examples:
a bald spot on the lawn / bare hills
Similar:
bare (lacking its natural or customary covering)
• BALD (verb)
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
