单词 | bald |
释义 | bald —baldish, adj. —baldly, adv. —baldness, n. /bawld/, adj. 1. having little or no hair on the scalp: a bald head; a bald person. 2. destitute of some natural growth or covering: a bald mountain. 3. lacking detail; bare; plain; unadorned: a bald prose style. 4. open; undisguised: a bald lie. 5. Zool. having white on the head: the bald eagle. 6. Auto. (of a tire) having the tread completely worn away. v.i. 7. to become bald. n. 8. (often cap.) Chiefly South Midland and Southern U.S. a treeless mountaintop or area near the top: often used as part of a proper name. [1250-1300; ME ball(e)d, equiv. to ball white spot (cf. Welsh bal, Gk phaliós having a white spot) + -ed -ED3] Syn. 4. bare, barefaced, flagrant, patent, utter, out-and-out, downright, flat-out. |
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