Thesaurus: bald

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1. a. 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.
2. a. Destitute of ornament; unadorned; bare; literal.
3. a. Undisguised.
4. a. Destitute of dignity or value; paltry; mean.
5. a. Destitute of a beard or awn; as, bald wheat.
6. a. Destitute of the natural covering.
7. a. Marked with a white spot on the head; bald-faced.
8. adj. with no effort to conceal
9. adj. lacking hair on all or most of the scalp
10. adj. without the natural or usual covering
11. v. grow bald; lose hair on one's head
12. 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.) 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.