bald Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb grow bald; lose hair on one's head
    • He is balding already
  2. adjective satellite with no effort to conceal
    barefaced.
    • a barefaced lie
  3. adjective satellite lacking hair on all or most of the scalp
    bald-headed; bald-pated.
    • a bald pate
    • a bald-headed gentleman
  4. adjective satellite without the natural or usual covering
    denuded; denudate.
    • a bald spot on the lawn
    • bare hills

WordNet

Bald adjective
Etymology
OE. balled, ballid, perh. the p.p. of ball to reduce to the roundness or smoothness of a ball, by removing hair. But cf. W. bali whiteness in a horse's forehead.
Definitions
  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. Obs.
  5. (Bot.) Destitute of a beard or awn; as, bald wheat.
  6. (Zoöl.) (a) Destitute of the natural covering. (b) Marked with a white spot on the head; bald-faced.

Webster 1913