bald

  • 31bald — adj. 1 (of a person) with the scalp wholly or partly lacking hair. 2 (of an animal, plant, etc.) not covered by the usual hair, feathers, leaves, etc. 3 colloq. with the surface worn away (a bald tyre). 4 a blunt, unelaborated (a bald statement) …

    Useful english dictionary

  • 32bald — baldheaded ald head ed, bald headed ald head ed, a. Having a bald head; lacking hair on all or most of the scalp; alsp called {bald} and {bald pated}; as, a bald headed gentleman. [1913 Webster +PJC] …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 33bald — 1. a) binnen Kurzem, demnächst, gleich, in absehbarer Zeit, in Kürze, in Kurzem, in kurzer Zeit, in naher/nächster Zukunft, innerhalb/nach kurzer Zeit, nächstens, sogleich; (veraltend): alsbald; (veraltet): alsobald, in brevi; (österr. veraltet) …

    Das Wörterbuch der Synonyme

  • 34bald — adjective 1 having little or no hair on your head: His bald head was badly sunburnt. | go bald (=gradually lose your hair) 2 not having enough of what usually covers something: The car s tires are completely bald. 3 bald statement/language/truth… …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 35bald — bạld ; Steigerung eher, am ehesten; möglichst bald; so bald wie, auch als möglich; sie spielte bald laut, bald leise; vgl. sobald …

    Die deutsche Rechtschreibung

  • 36bald — adj. VERBS ▪ be ▪ go ▪ He started to go bald in his twenties. ADVERB ▪ completely, quite, totally …

    Collocations dictionary

  • 37bald — 1. adjective /bɔːld,bɑld/ a) Having no hair, fur or feathers. The Skin Horse had lived longer in the nursery than any of the others. He was so old that his brown coat was bald in patches and showed the seams underneath, and most of the hairs in… …

    Wiktionary

  • 38bald — Having no hair, or a decrease in the amount of hair of the scalp. [M.E. balled] * * * bald bȯld adj lacking all or a significant part of the hair on the head or sometimes on other parts of the body bald vi * * * (bawld) having no hair; see… …

    Medical dictionary

  • 39bald — [14] In Middle English times, bald was ballede, which suggests that it may have been a compound formed in Old English with the suffix ede ‘characterized by, having’. It has been conjectured that the first element in the compound was Old English… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 40bald — adjective 1) a bald head Syn: hairless, smooth, shaven, depilated 2) a bald statement Syn: plain, simple, direct, blunt, unadorned, unvarnished; informal upfront • …

    Synonyms and antonyms dictionary