bald

1. 1.

   grow bald; lose hair on one's head

   “He is balding already”

   Broaderturn

Other forms of bald

past tense

balded·

present participle

balding·

third person

balds·

comparative

balder·

superlative

baldest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about bald

What does bald mean?

bald means "with no effort to conceal". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bald?

bald has 1 syllable: bald. In IPA it is /ˈbɔld/.

What is another word for bald?

Close synonyms include barefaced, bald-headed, bald-pated, denuded, denudate. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bald a common word?

bald is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with bald?

1 word rhymes with bald. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.