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bald

adjective

1 he had a bald head:

hairless, bald-headed, smooth;

shaven, depilated;

Scottish, & Irish baldy;

technical glabrous;

archaic bald-pated.

▷antonyms hairy.

2 the garden contained a few bald bushes:

leafless, bare, uncovered, stark.

▷antonyms lush.

3 such a bald statement requires some elaboration:

plain, simple, unadorned, unvarnished, unembellished, undisguised, unveiled, stark, severe, austere, brutal, harsh;

blunt, direct, forthright, plain-spoken, straight, straightforward, candid, honest, truthful, realistic, true to life, frank, outspoken, downright, outright, straight from the shoulder, explicit, unequivocal, unambiguous, unexaggerated, unqualified;

informal upfront, warts and all.

▷antonyms exhaustive.

bald Oxford Dictionary of English