bald

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   lacking hair on all or most of the scalp

   a bald pate

2. 2
   adj

   without the natural or usual covering

   a bald spot on the lawn

3. 3
   verb

   to grow bald

   They are both balding.

4. 4
   adj

   Having little or no hair, fur, or feathers.

   My uncle is bald.

5. 5
   adj

   Having little or no hair on the head, or having a large area of bare scalp on top of the head.

   a bald man with a moustache

6. 6
   adj

   Denuded of any covering.

   The bald cypress is a tree that loses its leaves in winter.

7. 7
   adj

   Of a statement or account, unembellished.

   Such is a bald statement of the singular and romantic series of events which centred public attention upon this Lancashire tragedy.

8. 8
   adj

   Of a statement, without evidence or support being provided.

   The plaintiff in this case must satisfy the judge that she has visible means, the mere bald statement that she has visible means is not suflicient.

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- Proto-Germanic *balluz Old English *beall Middle English bal? Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- Proto-Indo-European *bʰḗlH-o-m Proto-Germanic *bēlą Proto-West Germanic *bāl Old English bæl? Middle English balled English bald From Middle English balled, ballid, bald (“bald”), of uncertain origin. Probably formed from Middle English bal, balle (“ball, round object, knoll, head”). Compare Old Danish bældet (“bald”). An alternate etymology has Old English bǣl (“fire, flame; funeral pyre”), from Proto-Germanic *bēlą. Compare Albanian balë (“white spot on the foreh…