baldness (redirected from Receding hairline)

bald  (bôld)

adj. bald·er, bald·est

1. Lacking hair on the head.

2. Lacking a natural or usual covering: a bald spot on the lawn.

3. Lacking treads: a bald tire.

4. Zoology Having white feathers or markings on the head, as in some birds or mammals.

5. Lacking ornamentation; unadorned.

6. Undisguised; blunt: a bald statement of policy.

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[Middle English balled, probably from bal, ball; see ball¹.]

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baldly adv.

baldness n.

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Baldness

See also hair; head.

acomia

baldness. Also called alopecia, phalacrosis. — acomous, adj.

alopecist

Medicine. medical specialist who treats baldness.

atrichia

Medicine. congenital or acquired baldness. Also atrichosis.

calvities, calvity

baldness, especially at the top or back of the head. — calvous, adj.

peladophobia

a dread of baldness.

phalacrosis

baldness.

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Baldness 

See Also:HAIR

1. Bald as a ballpeen hammer —Thomas Lux
2. Bald as a brass knob —Beverly Farmer
3. Bald as a nun —Patrick White
4. Bald and wrinkled as a lizard —Sarah Bird

   See Also:WRINKLES

5. Bald as a balloon —Percival Wilde
6. Bald as a barefaced lie —Anon
7. Bald as a bearing —Loren D. Estleman
8. Bald as a billiard ball —Anon

   Of the many objects comparatively linked with baldness, the billiard or cue ball probably ranks at the very top.

9. Bald as a brick —Raymond Chandler
10. Bald as an egg —Anon
11. Bald as a football —William Boyd
12. Bald as an orange —Thomas Bailey Aldrich
13. Bald as a winter tree —William Morris
14. Bald as convicts —George Garrett
15. Bald as peeled onion —Margaret Laurence
16. Bald as the beach —William Diehl
17. Bald as the palm of your hand —Richard Harris Barham
18. Bald as time —Richard Prome
19. Bald head shining like a polished stone —George Garrett
20. The gleaming skull [of bald-headed man] shone like a supernatural sun —Sholem Asch
21. Had gone completely bald very young as though to get that over with as soon as possible —Helen Hudson
22. Hair beginning to recede like the polar ice cap in warm weather —Jean Thompson
23. Head as smooth as a knob —Russell Baker, New York Times, May 17, 1986
24. He had a bald patch on the top of his head which made him look rather like a monk —Guy De Maupassant
25. He was bald, his back hair was thick and projected like one of those large tree mushrooms that grow on the mossy side of a trunk —Saul Bellow
26. His bald head coming to a point, like an egg —Richard Llwellyn
27. His bald head shone … like an agitated moon —Erich Maria Remarque
28. His head [bald, with ring of grey-brown hair] was like the brown edges of a leaf in fall, a sign that the tree, however tall and green from a distance, was being eaten away at the edges, dying from the outside in —Jay Parini
29. His strong, bald head had a dull glow, like old ivory —Ivan Bunin
30. No more hair than a stone —John MacDonald
31. A semi-circular fringe of white hair surrounding his bald pate like a broken halo —Margaret Millar

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

baldness - the condition of having no hair on the top of the head phalacrosis depilation, hairlessness - the condition of being void of hair alopecia - loss of hair (especially on the head) or loss of wool or feathers; in humans it can result from heredity or hormonal imbalance or certain diseases or drugs and treatments (chemotherapy for cancer) male pattern baldness, male-patterned baldness - loss of hair on the crown of the head

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baldness

noun hairlessness, alopecia (Pathology), baldheadedness, baldpatedness, glabrousness (Biology) He wears a cap to cover a spot of baldness.

Translations

baldness [ˈbɔːldnɪs] N

1. [of person] → calvicie f

2. [of tyre] → desgaste m

3. [of statement] → lo directo; [of style] → lo escueto

baldness [ˈbɔːldnɪs] n → calvitie f

baldness

n

→ Kahlheit f

(of style, statement) → Knappheit f

baldness [ˈbɔːldnɪs] n → calvizie fsg