bald

/ˈbȯld/

Middle English balled; probably akin to Danish dialect bældet bald, Latin fulica coot, Greek phalios having a white spot, Old English bǣl fire, pyre

adjective

  1. lacking a natural or usual covering (as of hair, vegetation, or nap)

  2. having little or no tread

  3. marked with white

his bald head

bald tires

bare naked nude bald barren mean deprived of naturally or conventionally appropriate covering. bare implies the removal of what is additional, superfluous, ornamental, or dispensable. naked suggests absence of protective or ornamental covering but may imply a state of nature, of destitution, or of defenselessness.

verb

  1. to make bald

  2. to become bald

noun

  1. a large deciduous conifer (Taxodium distichum of the family Cupressaceae, the cypress family) of southern U.S. swamps that has flexible flat needles and is related to the sequoias; also : a related tree (T. mucronatum) of Mexico and southern Texas

  2. the hard red wood of bald cypress that is much used for shingles