Word Meanings - BALD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Destitute of a beard or awn; as, bald wheat. Destitute of the natural covering. Marked with a white spot on the head; bald-faced. Bald buzzard , the fishhawk or osprey. -- Bald coot , a name of the European coot , alluding to the bare patch on

Additional info about word: BALD

Destitute of a beard or awn; as, bald wheat. Destitute of the natural covering. Marked with a white spot on the head; bald-faced. Bald buzzard , the fishhawk or osprey. -- Bald coot , a name of the European coot , alluding to the bare patch on the front of the head. (more info) to the roundness or smoothness of a ball, by removing hair. sq. 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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of BALD)

• Glabrous
• Smooth
• polished
• bald
• shiny
• sleek
• glacial
• glassy
• Jejune
• Bare
• scant
• poor
• thin
• weak
• barren
• sterile
• poverty-struck
• Poor
• Indigent
• moneyless
• impecunious
• penniless
• meagre
• insufficient
• deficient
• faulty
• unsatisfactory
• inconsiderable
• scanty
• Raw
• Uncooked
• unprepared
• unfinished
• unripe
• crude
• unseasoned
• inexperienced
• fresh
• green
• unpractised
• untried
• bare
• exposed
• galled
• chill
• bleak
• piercing

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