Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: bald
IPA transcription: [b'ɔld]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: bald, barefaced
    Meaning: with no effort to conceal; "a barefaced lie"
  • Synonyms: bald, bald-headed, bald-pated
    Meaning: lacking hair on all or most of the scalp; "a bald pate"; "a bald-headed gentleman"
verb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: bald
    Meaning: grow bald; lose hair on one's head; "He is balding already"
Usage examples
  • The gardener had a perfectly bald head.
  • Being thus ironical and bald, he was the leader.
  • He passed his hand complacently over his bald head, and said with ostentatious resignation:
  • Once upon a time there lived a poor old man whose name was Wali Dad Gunjay, or Wali Dad the Bald.
  • William had sometimes idly imagined the impact of a pea sent violently from a pea-shooter with the gardener's bald head.
  • The lawyer was a little, squat, bald man, with a dark, reddish beard, light-colored long eyebrows, and an overhanging brow.
  • Such is a crude and bald sketch of the steps by which Kepler rose to his great generalizations--the two laws which have immortalized his name.
  • He was old, not very tall, somewhat stout and chubby, with a round face, a bald head and a scraggly fringe of reddish whisker underneath his chin.
  • Until Prince Andrew settled in Bogucharovo its owners had always been absentees, and its peasants were of quite a different character from those of Bald Hills.
  • The usual candle was burning on the table near his bed, but the great bald head lay motionless on the pillow, and the heavy white eyebrows drooped over closed lids.