Balding

adj, name, verb

adj, name, verb ·2 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of bald form-of, gerund, participle, present
Adjective
  1. 1
    Becoming bald, especially having male pattern baldness.

    "[…] doing variations on Old Devil Moon on trumpet, backed by an aging hippy on drums, a stringbeany, college student type on upright bass, and a balding man in his fifties playing an effectively understated piano."

Adjective
  1. 1
    getting bald wordnet
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.

Synonyms

All synonyms
hairless

Example

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"Sean Connery started balding at the age of 21."

Related phrases

male pattern baldness

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