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. Jerome K. Jerome:

   Some people are under the impression that all that is required to make a good fisherman is the ability to tell lies easily and without blushing; but this is a mistake. Mere bald fabrication is useless; the veriest tyro can manage that. It is in the circumstantial detail, the embellishing touches of probability, the general air of scrupulous -- almost of pedantic -- veracity, that the experienced angler is seen.

3. Kellan Baker:

   We think this language is very problematic. We know that the way these exclusions operate in practice,' certain' means' all we can get away with,' this is a back-door way of maintaining an exclusion without having the kind of bald-faced exclusion that invites all but the laziest of regulators to intervene.

4. Gene Palmer:

   With the money that they pay you, 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. Chef Ana Roš:

   When we were young, we had this fermented cottage cheese with bald potatoes, but it is such a strong spicy taste that it was too strong for the new generation, and the trade died out.