bald
bald is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 5 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.Destitute of ornament; unadorned; bare; literal. In the preface to his own bald translation. Dryden.
- 2.Undisguised. " Bald egotism." Lowell.
- 3.Destitute of dignity or value; paltry; mean. [Obs.]
- 4.(Bot.) Destitute of a beard or awn; as, bald wheat.
- 5.(Zoöl.) (a) Destitute of the natural covering. (b) Marked with a white spot on the head; bald-faced. Bald buzzard (Zoöl.), the fishhawk or osprey. -- Bald coot (Zoöl.), a name of the European coot (Fulica atra), alluding to the bare patch on the front of the head.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- altogether
- back
- bare
- bareback
- barebacked
- barefoot
- bareness
- birthday
- bland
- buff
- callow
- careless
- cast
- childish
- cold
- colorless
- coot
- cover
- decorticate
- decortication
- denudation
- denude
- depilation
- desquamation
- diffuse
- disfurnish
- dishabille
- dismantle
- disrobe
- divest
- divestment
- doff
- dress
- dry
- dull
- enrobe
- excoriate
- excoriation
- exfoliate
- exfoliation
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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