Synonyms for bald
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1. bald, barefacedadjective

   with no effort to conceal

   "a barefaced lie"

   Synonyms:
   bald-pated, bald-headed, brassy, denudate, brazen-faced, bodacious, barefaced, insolent, audacious, bald-faced, brazen, denuded

   Antonyms:
   covered, hirsute, haired, hairy, covert

2. bald, bald-headed, bald-patedadjective

   lacking hair on all or most of the scalp

   "a bald pate"; "a bald-headed gentleman"

   Synonyms:
   denudate, denuded, barefaced, bald-headed, bald-pated

   Antonyms:
   hirsute, haired, hairy, covered, covert

3. bald, denuded, denudateverb

   without the natural or usual covering

   "a bald spot on the lawn"; "bare hills"

   Synonyms:
   denudate, denuded, barefaced, bald-headed, bald-pated

   Antonyms:
   hirsute, haired, hairy, covert, covered

4. baldverb

   grow bald; lose hair on one's head

   "He is balding already"

   Antonyms:
   haired, covered, hairy, covert, hirsute

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1. baldadjective

   Synonyms:
   without hair (on the head)

2. baldadjective

   Synonyms:
   unadorned, inelegant, prosaic, dull, meagre, vapid, tame

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1. baldadjective

   Synonyms:
   hairless, polled, tonsured, unadorned, literal, undisguised, unvarnished, unqualified, uncorroborated, unsupported, glaring, mere

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1. List of paraphrases for "bald":

   bald-headed, baldy, batty

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1. Teruko Nishiguchi:

   At the office, my Osaka (Kansai) colleague made fun of another colleague from Chiba (Kanto) who is bald, he joked, 'Where is your hair? So bald!' and that shocked the bald guy.

2. Benjamin Johnson:

   It is not growing like a tree in bulk doth make man better be; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere, A lily of a day is fairer in May Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant of flower and light, In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.

3. Henry David Thoreau:

   If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

4. Gene Palmer:

   With the money they pay you'll go bald, you'll have high blood pressure, you'll become an alcoholic, you'll divorce and then you'll kill yourself.

5. Mike Lange:

   He’d sit on a bald man’s hat!