BALD

bald, bald-headed, bald-pated

(adjective) lacking hair on all or most of the scalp; “a bald pate”; “a bald-headed gentleman”

bald, denuded, denudate

(adjective) without the natural or usual covering; “a bald spot on the lawn”; “bare hills”

bald, barefaced

(adjective) with no effort to conceal; “a barefaced lie”

bald

(verb) grow bald; lose hair on one’s head; “He is balding already”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Adjective

bald (comparative balder, superlative baldest)

Having no hair, fur or feathers.

Antonyms: faxed, haired

Having no hair on the head.

(by extension) Denuded of any hair- or fur-like covering.

Of tyres: whose surface is worn away.

(of a, statement or account) Unembellished.

(of a, statement) Without evidence or support being provided.

Noun

bald (plural balds)

(Appalachian) A mountain summit or crest that lacks forest growth despite a warm climate conducive to such, as is found in many places in the Southern Appalachian Mountains.

Verb

bald (third-person singular simple present balds, present participle balding, simple past and past participle balded)

(intransitive) To become bald.

Anagrams

• ABDL, DLAB, blad

Etymology

Proper noun

Bald (plural Balds)

A surname.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Bald is the 29261^st most common surname in the United States, belonging to 809 individuals. Bald is most common among White (87.14%) individuals.

Anagrams

• ABDL, DLAB, blad

Source: Wiktionary

Bald, a. Etym: [OE. balled, ballid, perh. the p.p. of ball to reduce to the roundness or smoothness of a ball, by removing hair. sq. root85. But cf. W. bali whiteness in a horse's forehead.]

1. Destitute of the natural or common covering on the head or top, as of hair, feathers, foliage, trees, etc.; as, a bald head; a bald oak. On the bald top of an eminence. Wordsworth.

2. Destitute of ornament; unadorned; bare; literal. In the preface to his own bald translation. Dryden.

3. Undisguised. " Bald egotism." Lowell.

4. Destitute of dignity or value; paltry; mean. [Obs.]

5. (Bot.)

Definition: Destitute of a beard or awn; as, bald wheat.

6. (Zoöl.) (a) Destitute of the natural covering. (b) Marked with a white spot on the head; bald-faced. Bald buzzard (Zoöl.), the fishhawk or osprey.

– Bald coot (Zoöl.), a name of the European coot (Fulica atra), alluding to the bare patch on the front of the head.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition