Bald

Definition: Bald

Bald

Adjective

1. With no effort to conceal; "a barefaced lie".

2. Without the natural or usual covering; "a bald spot on the lawn"; "bare hills".

3. Lacking hair on all or most of the scalp; "a bald pate"; "a bald-headed gentleman".

Verb

1. Grow bald; lose hair on one's head; "He is balding already".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "bald" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Dream Interpretation

Literature

Mining

Multilingual Slang

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Synonyms: Bald

Divestment

In a state of nature, in nature's garb, in the buff, in native buff, in birthday suit; in puris naturalibus; with nothing on, stark naked, stark raving naked; bald as a coot, bare as the back of one's hand; out at elbows; barefoot; bareback, barebacked; leafless, napless, hairless.

Adjective: divested; Verb: bare, naked, nude; undressed, undraped; denuded; exposed; in dishabille; bald, threadbare, ragged, callow, roofless.

Feebleness

Adjective: feeble, bald, tame, meager, jejune, vapid, bland, trashy, lukewarm, cold, frigid, poor, dull, dry, languid; colorless, enervated; proposing, prosy, prosaic; unvaried, monotonous, weak, washy, wishy-washy; sketchy, slight.

Simplicity

Bald, flat, dull.

Ugliness

Adjective: ugly, ugly as sin, ugly as a toad, ugly as a scarecrow, ugly as a dead monkey; plain, bald (unadorned); homely; ordinary, unornamental, inartistic; unsightly, unseemly, uncomely, unlovely; unshapely; sightless, seemless; not fit to be seen;

Weariness

Adjective: wearying; Verb: wearing; wearisome, tiresome, irksome; uninteresting, stupid, bald, devoid of interest, dry, monotonous, dull, arid, tedious, humdrum, mortal, flat; prosy, prosing; slow, soporific, somniferous.

Crosswords: Bald

German (almost, nearly, presently, shortly, soon).

A bald monkey (E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial; writing credit: Ethan Coen)

He probably wears the mask to hide his bald head and unsightly features (The Mask of Zorro; writing credit: Johnston McCulley; Ted Elliott)

He's bald (Pulp Fiction; writing credit: Quentin Tarantino; Roger Avary)

Bald up there (Five Easy Pieces; writing credit: Carole Eastman; Bob Rafelson)

I'd rather you go bald to school than looking like a tramp (Mommie Dearest; writing credit: Christina Crawford; Robert Getchell)

Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald. (references; author: Belgian Proverb)

What hair color do they put on the driver's licenses of bald men? (references; author: unknown)

A big bug bit a bold bald bear, and the bold bald bear bled blood badly. (references; author: unknown)

Home Free: Return of the Bald Eagle (1986)

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Books

• Bald Eagle 2003 Calendar (reference)

• Bald Head a History of Smith Island and Cape Fear (reference)

• Do Bald Men Get Half-Price Haircuts?: In Search of America's Great Barbershops (reference)

• Fat Bald Jeff (reference)

• Four Plays: Bald Soprano/the Lesson/Jack or the Submission/the Chairs (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Bald Eagle (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• The Bald Witch Project (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Moussorgky: Night on Bald Mountain/Pictures at an Exhibition (reference)

• Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition; Night on Bald Mountain (SACD) [SACD] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Bald Eagles Photo CD (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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Shown is a female health professional at the bedside of a bald female chemotherapy patient discussing information in a pamphlet or chart. (See artwork NCI-112D). Credit: NCI Clinical Center/Mathews Media Group.

Southern Bald Eagles. Credit: NASA.

Bald Eagle - Haliaeetus leucocephalus. Credit: NOAA's Ark (Animals).

The bald eagle is one of 14 threatened and endangered species making their homes within Canaveral National Seashore. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Padilla Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. The Bald Eagle, Haliaeetus leucocephalus, adults (more than 5 years old) are unmistakable with dark brown plumage except for white head, neck and tails. The beak, eyes, legs, and feet are yellow. Wing span up to 2.5 meters, with females considerably larger than males. Immature eagles lack white plumage and yellow accents. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

Immature bald eagle. Credit: USDA.

Bald Eagle in nest treeBirds of Prey National Conservation AreaBOPOwyhee Field OfficeLSRDLower Snake River District. Credit: Unknown.

Close up head of a bald eagle. Credit: Unknown.

Acrylic painting of three Redheads flying low over water in late afternoon by Arthur G. Anderson, North 5995 CTH O.T., Onalaska, Wisconsin 54650. A freelance artist and collector of antique cars. In addition to waterfowl, Anderson likes to paint bald eagles, white-tailed deer, and other species inhabiting the area near his home. *first time a sleeve was used instead of a plate. Return to the Federal Duck Stamp Office Home Page.

Bald Eagle. Credit: Alaska Image Library.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

So, being bald and ironical, he was the chief

The plump bald sergeantmajor was testing with his foot the springboard of the vaulting horse

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Economic History

Andorra

In the 800s, Charlemagne's grandson, Charles the Bald, named the Count of Urgel as overlord of Andorra. (references)

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Bald

Bald

Expressions using "bald": as bald as a coot ♦ bald brant ♦ Bald buzzard ♦ Bald coot ♦ bald cypress ♦ Bald eagle ♦ bald head ♦ bald Head Island ♦ bald ibis ♦ bald Knob ♦ bald patch ♦ bald pate ♦ bald person ♦ bald statement ♦ bald tyre ♦ bald unadorned ♦ be as bald as a coot ♦ be going bald ♦ become bald ♦ becoming bald ♦ Charles the Bald ♦ go bald ♦ grow bald ♦ pond bald cypress. Additional references.

Beginning with "bald": bald-arsed, bald-coot, bald-domed, Bald-faced, bald-faced hornet, Bald-faced widgeon, bald-gummed, bald-headed, bald-headedness, bald-pated, bald-rib, bald-top.

Ending with "bald": half-bald, near-bald, nearly-bald, pie-bald.

Albanian

tullac (bald-headed, calvity), i zhveshur (bare, bleak, defoliate, dry, leafless, naked, nude, treeless, unclad, undressed), i shpërlarë (bland, inexpressive), i shogët, gollomesh (bare, naked, nude). (various references)

Arabic 

‏صلع (alopecia, baldness, become bald), ‏صريح مكشوف, ‏ذو بياض فى الرأس, ‏جاف غير مشوق, ‏أصلع (hairless), ‏أجرد (bleak, empty), ‏بسيط غير مزخرف. (various references)

Blackfoot

ksikkihkíni (bald eagle). (various references)

Bulgarian 

сух (academic, academical, anhydrous, arid, aseptic, brut, chaffy, chippy, dried, droughty, dry, fleshless, gaunt, hacking, lean, liny, matter of fact, pedestrian, prosy, rainless, sapless, sec, spare, tearless, undamped, uninspired), гол (bare, callow, goal, harsh, naked, nude, raw, unfledged, ungloved), оплешивял, неприкрит (unconcealed, undisguised), лис, плешив (bald-headed, calvish). (various references)

Chinese 

鬎 (scabby), 鬁 (scabby), 秃头, 禿 (blunt), 光禿禿 . (various references)

Czech

suchý (arid, bare, dead, desiccated, droughty, dry, hacking, matter of fact, pedestrian, sear, sere, torrid, wry), plešatý, ojetý (used, worn out), lysý, holý (bare, bleak, hard, naked, stark, undiluted, utter). (various references)

Danish

skaldet (bald-headed). (various references)

Dutch

kaal (bleak), kaalhoofdig. (various references)

Esperanto

kalva. (various references)

Faeroese

berskøllutur, skallutur. (various references)

Farsi 

کچل , کل (Total), ساده (Bare, Downright, Explicit, Homespun, Idiot, Inexpensive, Plain, Positive, Simple, Slick, Unaadorned, Unaffected, Unassuming, Unceremonious, Unmeaning, Untutored), عریان (Bare, Naked, Nude, Unaadorned), طاس شدن , طاس (Dibs), بیمو, بی ملاحت , بی لطف (Ungainly), برهنه (Naked, Nude, Untented). (various references)

Finnish

paljas (bare, mere, naked, uncovered), kaljupäinen, kalju (bare). (various references)

French

chauve (bald-headed). (various references)

German

kahl (baldly, bare, barren, bleak, featherless, leafless, naked, shaved, shorn, stark), glatzköpfig (bald-headed), federlos (unfeathered). (various references)

Greek 

φαλακρός (bald-headed, calvus). (various references)

Hebrew 

מקורח, קרח (ice), גבח. (various references)

Hungarian

kopasz (bare, callow, hairless, peeled, pilled, twink). (various references)

Indonesian

botak (baldheaded), bergundul (leafless), gundul (bare, leafless). (various references)

Italian

pelato (hairless, peeled), calvo (Baldhead, hairless). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

薬鑵頭 (bald head), 薬罐頭 (bald head), 薬缶頭 (bald head), 蛸坊主 (man with a bald or shaven head), 蛸入道 (man with a bald or shaven head, octopus), 白頭鷲 (bald eagle), 禿げ頭 (bald head), 禿げ山 (bald or denuded mountain), 禿上がる (to become bald fom the forehead, to recede), ハ長調 (bar, bar code, barbarism, barbecue, barbell, barber, barell, bargain, bargain sale, bargaining power, bartender, barter, base, Bayer, BBQ, Berkeley, berkelium, Berkley, Bermuda shorts, Bermuda Triangle, berth, bias, biathlon, bio, bio music, biochip, biocomputer, bioconversion, bioelectronics, bioethics, biofeedback, biogas, biography, biohazard, bioholonics, bioindustry, bioinfomatics, biomass, bionics, biopsy, bioreactor, biorhythm, bioscience, biosensor, biotechnology, biotelemetry, biotron, bird carving, bird sanctuary, bird watching, birdcall, birdie, Birmingham, birth, birth control, birthday, bourbon, Burberry, burger, burlesque, burner, burn-out syndrome, burst, buying power, by, bye, C major, crowbar, Farbenfabriken Bayer Aktiengesellschaft, hair combed in stripes across a bald pate, old man who takes Viagra, scale, updating a software version, Vermont, vernier, verse, version, vertical marketing, violin, violinist, virgin, Virginia, virginity, virtual, virtual circuit, virtual reality), 光頭 (bald-headed), 丸坊主 (bald hill, close-cropped head), はげ上がる (to become bald fom the forehead, to recede). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

たこぼうず (man with a bald or shaven head), たこにゅうどう (man with a bald or shaven head, octopus), バーコードヘア (hair combed in stripes across a bald pate), まるぼうず (bald hill, close-cropped head), こうとう (aloof, bald-headed, bow deeply, demotion, goodpitching, high class, high grade, highbrow, kowtow, larynx, oral, oral answer, political party, red light, steep price rise, sudden price jump, the imperial line, transcendent), やかんあたま (bald head), はくとうわし (bald eagle), はげあたま (bald head), はげあがる (to become bald fom the forehead, to recede), はげやま (bald or denuded mountain, bare hill, treeless hill). (various references)

Korean 

대머리 (Balder, Baldness). (various references)

Manx

meayllaghey (bare, damp, depilate, depilation, flatten, put back), meayl (bleak, bleak as place, hairless, hornless, obtuse), lhome (arid, bare, fleshless, leafless, meagre, naked, neat, nude, scraggy, severe, spare). (various references)

Norwegian

skallet. (various references)

Pig Latin

aldbay.(various references)

Portuguese

insignificante (fiddle-faddle, frivolous, inconsiderable, inferior, insignificant, little, mean, negligible, one-horse, paltry, petty, picayune, piddling, pimping, pitiable, pony, poor, potty, puny, scrubby, small, trifling, trivial, unimportant, wispy), careca (bald-head, baldness, hairless), calvo, sem vegetac,a~o, calvo (bald-headed, hairless). (various references)

Romanian

simplu (agrestic, artless, austere, average, bare, common, easy, elementary, grave, home-bred, homely, homespun, humble, humbly, mere, modest, natural, neat, patriarchal, plain, plainly, primitive, pure, quiet, ready, russet, segregate, simple, simple minded, simply, single, singular, soft-headed, straight, straightforward, unaffected, unassuming, undisguised, unpretending, unpretentious, unsophisticated, unvarnished), sec (barren, cold, dried up, drily, dry, dull, empty, glacial, harshly, hollow, literal, stupid, useless), pleşuv (bald-headed, bare, barren, hairless, smooth), plat (commonplace, flat, homely, insipid), monoton (dead, ding-dong, drab, dull, flat, humdrum, inanimate, monotonous, monotonously, same, singsong, slow, tame, uneventful), gol (abyss, bare, bare-bodied, barren, blank, blankness, desert, deserted, empty, gap, genuine, hollow, hollowness, inanity, leafless, naked, nakedly, nude, out at, shallow, stripped, uncovered, vacancy, vacuum, void, waste, windy), deschis (above board, artless, avowedly, baldly, barefaced, barely, blunt, broad, direct, downright, flatly, forthright, Frank, frankly, freehearted, free-spoken, guileless, light, naked, open, openly, outright, outspoken, overt, overtly, pale, patent, plainly, raw, round, roundly, sincere, Square, straight, straightforward, unfeigned, unreserved), curat (absolute, blank, clean, cleanly, clear, clearly, fair, faultless, fine, fresh, genuine, honest, immaculate, neat, orderly, Plumb, pristine, pure, raw, sheer, simple, sincere, snowy, snug, stainless, stark, straight, tidy, white), chel (bald-headed, hairless, pilgarlic, scalpless, smooth), ţintat. (various references)

Russian 

лысый (baldheaded, bald-headed, hairless). (various references)

Scottish

maol (bare, blunt, cape, edgeless, hornless, pointless, polled, promontory), lom (a plain, bare, bare surface, cropped : air lom, into view, pl. luim, shaven). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

ogoljen (bare, parched, shorn), neprekriven, ćelav (bald-headed, hairless). (various references)

Spanish

calvo (bald-headed, bald-pated, hairless, threadbare). (various references)

Swedish

skallig, kal (bare, bleak, stark), flintskallig (bald-headed). (various references)

Thai

โล่ง (naked), ล้าน. (various references)

Turkish

yavan (arid, crude, cut and dried, dry, frail, insipid, jaded, jejune, meager, meagre, milk and water, platitudinous, prosaic, prose, prosy, tasteless, uninspired, vapid, watery), yapraksız (apetalous, bare, leafless), yalın (bare, naked, nominative, plain, severe, simple, simplex, simplificative, unvarnished, vivid), tüysüz (bare, beardless, featherless, glabrous, hairless, napless, plumeless, unfledged), sade (artless, austere, bare, chaste, frugal, frugally, homely, homespun, just, mere, merely, only, plain, pure, rustic, severe, simple, simplificative, sober, stark, unadorned, unmixed, unsophisticated), saçsız (hairless), sıkıcı (arid, boring, burdensome, constringent, cut and dried, damnable, dead alive, disconcerting, ditch water, ditchwater, drab, dry, dryasdust, dull, dusty, gaunt, gloomy, grave, grotty, humdrum, inanimate, insipid, irksome, oppressive, poky, ponderous, prose, prosy, slow, sluggish, soul-destroying, soulless, stodgy, stuffy, tedious, tiresome, trying, uncongenial, unexeciting, unpleasant, unreadable, unsensational, vapid, waste, watery, wearisome), kel (Baldhead, baldpate, coot, hairless, scabby), kabak (pumpkin, squash, unripe, zucchini), dazlak (Baldhead, coot, hairless, skin). (various references)

Turkmen 

sakar kelle. (various references)

Ukrainian

убогий (bare, gimp, jimp, pokey, poking, poky, poverty stricken, poverty-struck, scant, scanty, scraggy, skimp, starveling, stingy, wretched), голомозий (bald-headed), голий (bare, bleak, callow, desert, naked, nude, stark), оголений (bare, doddered, exposed, glabrous, naked, nude), неприхований (bald-faced, barefaced, naked, nude), неприкрашений (bare, unvarnished), неприкритий (open, opened, uncovered, unsheltered), лисий (bald pate, bald-headed, hairless), беззмістовний (barren, blank, empty, inane, insignificant, matterless, sapless, vapid), безбарвний (colorless, colourless, platitudinous, washy, watery, waxen, white), пустий (addle, airy, bare, barren, baseless, begging, chaffy, empty, frothy, otiose, sounding, vacant, vacuous, vain, void, yeasty), прямий (above board, barefaced, bounden, candid, direct, downright, erect, forthright, ostensive, outright, outspoken, perpendicular, plainspoken, point blank, spadish, straight, straightforward, through), простий (artless, austere, babyish, bare, childlike, mere, onefold, ordinary, plain, primary, prime, run of the mill, shirt-sleeve, simple, stateless, straightforward, unaffected, unartful, unceremonious, unsophisticated), плішивий (bald pate, bald-headed). (various references)

Vietnamese 

khô khan (baldly, dryasdust, jejune), đầu trọc như cái sọ dừa. (various references)

Welsh

penfoel, moel (bare, hill, hornless, polled). (various references)

calvus. (various references)

bal. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "bald": baldachin, baldachino, baldachinos, baldachins, balded, balder, balderdash, balderdashes, baldest, baldhead, baldheaded, baldheads, baldies, balding, baldish, baldly, baldness, baldnesses, baldpate, baldpates, baldric, baldrick, baldricks, baldrics, balds, baldy. (additional references)

Words ending with "bald": piebald, ribald, semibald, skewbald. (additional references)

Words containing "bald": garibaldi, garibaldis, piebalds, ribaldly, ribaldries, ribaldry, ribalds, skewbalds. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Bald" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ald, baaad, baad, badd, badl, baid, balad, Balado, balb, Balde, Baldhu, baldo, Baldr, balds, Balf, balg, balh, balid, ballr, balnd, balp, balr, Balt, balx, Balz, bauld, bawld, beald, bedl, beld, bild, bilx, bla, blad, blav, blax, boald, buld, buldi, buldo, buldy, dald, fald, kald, rald, vald, yald. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: alb, bad, bal, dab, dal, lab, lad.

-2 letters: ab, ad, al, ba, la.

+1 letter: badly, balds, baldy, baled, blade, bland, dobla.

+2 letters: albedo, ambled, bailed, balded, balder, baldly, balked, ballad, balled, bawled, beadle, bedlam, beglad, belady, belaud, beldam, bladed, blades, blamed, blared, blawed, blazed, bridal, cabled, dabble, doable, doblas, drably, dyable, fabled, gabled, lambda, lambed, ribald, tabled.

+3 letters: ablated, abluted, addable, addible, albedos, alibied, audible, audibly, babbled, badland, baffled, baldest, baldies, balding, baldish, baldric, ballade, ballads, battled, baulked, bawdily, beadily, beadles, bedlamp, bedlams, bedrail, beglads, belaced, belated, belauds, belayed, beldame, beldams, bimodal, bipedal, blabbed, blacked, bladder, blander, blandly, blanked, blasted, blatted, bleared, bleated, bloated, bollard, bradawl, brailed, brawled, bridals, broadly, busload, cabildo, codable, dabbled, dabbler, dabbles, datable, debacle, diabolo, disable, dowable, drabble, dryable, dupable, durable, durably, dyeable, enabled, fadable, flatbed, gabbled, gambled, garbled, halberd, hidable, labeled, labored, labroid, ladybug, lambdas, lobated, marbled, oddball, piebald, rabbled, rabidly, rambled, ribalds, ridable, slabbed, stabled, subdual, tabloid, wabbled, wadable, wambled, warbled.