单词 | bald |
释义 | bald (bôld) adj. bald·er, bald·est 1. Lacking hair on the head. 2. Lacking a natural or usual covering: a bald spot on the lawn. 3. Lacking treads: a bald tire. 4. Zoology Having white feathers or markings on the head, as in some birds or mammals. 5. Lacking ornamentation; unadorned. 6. Undisguised; blunt: a bald statement of policy. [Middle English balled, probably from bal, ball; see BALL1. Sense 4, perhaps partly of Celtic origin; akin to Welsh bal, having a white streak on the forehead (of horses), Irish ball, spot, mark, and English blaze, white mark on the face of an animal; see BLAZE2.] baldly adv. baldness n. |
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