baldadjective
uk/bɔːld/us/bɑːld/bald adjective (NO HAIR)
B1 with little or no hair on the head:
At 20 he was already going bald.
as bald as a coot UK informal US as bald as a cue ball
completely bald:
When he took off his hat, we saw that he was as bald as a coot!
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- Going bald is just a fact of life.
- The idea of going grey doesn't bother me, but I'd hate to go bald.
- Gerald had a long grey beard and a shiny bald dome .
- I think he's got a complex about being bald.
- He's overweight and bald, and yet somehow, he's incredibly attractive.
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Hair
- -haired
- a full, good, thick, etc. head of hair idiom
- bald patch
- balding
- beard
- crinkle
- curl
- curly
- hairpiece
- hairy
- hirsute
- plica
- pube
- receding hairline
- rug
- tache
- toupée
- tresses
- unshaven
- wisp
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bald adjective (PLAIN)
basic and with no unnecessary words or detail:
There was just this bald statement of resignation - no explanation or anything.
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Blunt and direct in speech & behaviour
- baldly
- blunt
- bluntly
- brusque
- brutal
- forward
- frank
- in a word idiom
- in the raw idiom
- man-to-man
- mince
- not mince (your) words idiom
- pull
- raw
- shoot from the hip idiom
- straight
- term
- terse
- unvarnished
- woman-to-woman
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bald adjective (SMOOTH)
a bald tyre is one that has worn away to become very smooth and is therefore dangerous:
The tyre was completely bald.
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The exterior of vehicles
- brake light
- bull bar
- bumper sticker
- Klaxon
- licence plate
- license plate number
- offside
- petrol cap
- radial
- retread
- roll bar
- roof
- roof rack
- side mirror
- splash guard
- stepney
- tyre
- vanity plates
- wing
- wing mirror
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baldness
noun [ U ] uk/ˈbɔːld.nəs/us/ˈbɑːld.nəs/
He suffered from premature baldness, losing his hair in his twenties.
The baldness of her question shocked him.