He talks with the quiet man. Don't you think he's a little bald on top?
Source: tatoeba (32143)
Bald
/bɑːld/
Synonyms for "bald" (127 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (26)
Strong matches (38)
Related words (63)
plainplain spokenplain-speakingplain-spokenpolledprosaicprosingprosypurerawrevealedrusticsevereshavenshearedsimplesimple-speakingsmoothsmooth-facedsmooth-shaven
Show 38 more words
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Verb(1 words)
Choosing the right synonym
- Closest matches in this entry: acomous, alopecic, ascetic, austere, bald-headed.
- Sentence evidence is available for bald, so synonym choice can be checked against real usage rather than a flat word list.
- Ranking signals come from moby, derived_reverse, wordnet, opengloss, and related lexical sources.
Synonym selection checklist
- Match the part of speech before comparing meanings.
- Check whether the synonym changes intensity, formality, or emotional tone.
- Read the replacement inside the full sentence, not just beside "bald".
- Prefer the clearest word over the most unusual word when writing for speed or comprehension.
When not to replace "bald"
Keep "bald" when the sentence already sounds natural, when a synonym would add unintended emphasis, or when readers need the most familiar wording. A synonym should clarify or sharpen the message, not simply make the sentence look more varied.
If two options seem close, choose the one that best matches the audience and purpose of the sentence.
Replacement workflow
1. Preserve meaning
Choose a synonym only if it keeps the core idea of "bald" intact in the sentence you are editing.
2. Tune tone
Check whether the replacement sounds more formal, casual, emotional, technical, or forceful than the original word.
3. Re-read context
Read the full sentence after the swap. Keep the synonym only when the sentence becomes clearer or more precise.
Review note: Synonym lists are ranked with lexical data and reviewed for practical writing value. Use the comparison notes, sentence evidence, and source labels together; a high-ranking synonym can still be wrong when the audience, register, or grammar changes.
Final fit check
After choosing a replacement for "bald", read the sentence once for meaning and once for rhythm. The best synonym should feel natural in the full sentence, not only accurate in a word list.
If the synonym makes the sentence slower, vaguer, or more dramatic than intended, keep "bald" or choose a simpler alternative from the closest-match group.
Related word relations
OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.
More general
8 entriesMore specific
6 entriesCollocations
6 entriesbald eaglebald headbald patchbald spotbald tiresbald-faced lie
Inflections
2 entriesDerivations
2 entriessimilar
4 entriesTranslations
181 translations across 113 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- bles adj (having little or no hair)
Albanian
1 entries- tullac adj (having little or no hair)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- φαλακρός adj (having little or no hair)
Arabic
4 entries- أقرع adj (having little or no hair)
- أَجْرَد adj (having little or no hair)
- أَصْلَع adj (having little or no hair)
- أَقْرَع adj (having little or no hair)
Armenian
2 entries- ճաղատ adj (having little or no hair)
- քաչալ adj (having little or no hair)
Asturian
1 entries- calvu adj (having little or no hair)
Azerbaijani
2 entries- daz adj (having little or no hair)
- keçəl adj (having little or no hair)
Basque
2 entries- burusoil adj (having little or no hair)
- soil adj (having little or no hair)
Belarusian
2 entries- лы́сы adj (having little or no hair)
- пляшы́вы adj (having little or no hair)
Bengali
3 entries- টাক মাথা adj (having little or no hair)
- টাকলু adj (having little or no hair)
- টেকো adj (having little or no hair)
Bikol Central
1 entries- angas adj (having little or no hair)
Breton
1 entries- moal adj (having little or no hair)
Bulgarian
2 entries- лис adj (having little or no hair)
- плеши́в adj (having little or no hair)
Catalan
1 entries- calb adj (having little or no hair)
Cebuano
2 entries- upaw adj (having little or no hair)
- upawon adj (having little or no hair)
Central Kurdish
1 entries- کەچەڵ adj (having little or no hair)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 光禿禿的 /光秃秃的 adj (having little or no hair)
- 禿頭的 /秃头的 adj (having little or no hair)
Church Slavic
1 entries- възлꙑсъ adj (having little or no hair)
Crimean Tatar
1 entries- tazbaş adj (having little or no hair)
Czech
1 entries- plešatý adj (having little or no hair)
Danish
1 entries- skaldet adj (having little or no hair)
Dupaningan Agta
1 entries- polpog adj (having little or no hair)
Dutch
1 entries- kaal adj (having little or no hair)
Erzya
2 entries- кепепря adj (having little or no hair)
- чертеме adj (having little or no hair)
Esperanto
2 entries- kalva adj (having little or no hair)
- senhara adj (having little or no hair)
Estonian
1 entries- kiilas adj (having little or no hair)
Farefare
1 entries- kõogɔ adj (having little or no hair)
Faroese
1 entries- skallutur adj (having little or no hair)
Finnish
1 entries- kalju adj (having little or no hair)
French
1 entries- chauve adj (having little or no hair)
Galician
4 entries- cachapelada adj (having little or no hair)
- calvo adj (having little or no hair)
- careco adj (having little or no hair)
- cañón adj (having little or no hair)
Georgian
2 entries- მელოტი adj (having little or no hair)
- ქოსა adj (having little or no hair)
German
2 entries- glatzköpfig adj (having little or no hair)
- kahl adj (having little or no hair)
Greek
2 entries- καραφλός adj (having little or no hair)
- φαλακρός adj (having little or no hair)
Hebrew
1 entries- קירח \ קֵרֵחַ adj (having little or no hair)
Hindi
1 entries- गंजा adj (having little or no hair)
Hungarian
2 entries- kopasz adj (having little or no hair)
- tar adj (having little or no hair)
Icelandic
1 entries- sköllóttur adj (having little or no hair)
Ido
2 entries- kalva adj (having little or no hair)
- senhara adj (having little or no hair)
Indonesian
1 entries- botak adj (having little or no hair)
Irish
1 entries- maol adj (having little or no hair)
Italian
2 entries- calvo adj (having little or no hair)
- pelato adj (having little or no hair)
Japanese
1 entries- 禿げ adj (having little or no hair)
Javanese
1 entries- buthak adj (having little or no hair)
Kazakh
3 entries- жалтыр adj (having little or no hair)
- таз adj (having little or no hair)
- қасқа adj (having little or no hair)
Khmer
2 entries- តម្ពែក adj (having little or no hair)
- ត្រងាល adj (having little or no hair)
Korean
1 entries- 대머리의 adj (having little or no hair)
Kyrgyz
2 entries- кашка adj (having little or no hair)
- таз adj (having little or no hair)
Ladin
1 entries- las adj (having little or no hair)
Lao
2 entries- ລ້ານ adj (having little or no hair)
- ໂລ້ນ adj (having little or no hair)
Latin
1 entries- calvus adj (having little or no hair)
Latvian
1 entries- plikgalvains adj (having little or no hair)
Lithuanian
1 entries- plikas adj (having little or no hair)
Lower Sorbian
1 entries- goły adj (having little or no hair)
Luhya
1 entries- sipara adj (having little or no hair)
Macedonian
1 entries- ќелав adj (having little or no hair)
Malay
1 entries- botak adj (having little or no hair)
Malayalam
1 entries- കഷണ്ടി adj (having little or no hair)
Manchu
1 entries- ᡥᠣᡨᠣ adj (having little or no hair)
Manx
1 entries- meayl adj (having little or no hair)
Meru
1 entries- kimencu adj (having little or no hair)
Middle English
2 entries- balled adj (having little or no hair)
- calwe adj (having little or no hair)
Mongolian
1 entries- халзан adj (having little or no hair)
Māori
3 entries- hewa adj (having little or no hair)
- porohewa adj (having little or no hair)
- pākira adj (having little or no hair)
Navajo
1 entries- dilkǫǫh adj (having little or no hair)
Neapolitan
2 entries- scucciato adj (having little or no hair)
- zelluso adj (having little or no hair)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- skalla adj (having little or no hair)
- skallet adj (having little or no hair)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- skalla adj (having little or no hair)
Occitan
1 entries- calvet adj (having little or no hair)
Old English
2 entries- calu adj (having little or no hair)
- hnot adj (having little or no hair)
Old Irish
1 entries- máel adj (having little or no hair)
Old Javanese
1 entries- buṭak adj (having little or no hair)
Ottoman Turkish
4 entries- صاچسز adj (having little or no hair)
- طازلاق adj (having little or no hair)
- قباق adj (having little or no hair)
- كل adj (having little or no hair)
Persian
3 entries- طاس adj (having little or no hair)
- کل adj (having little or no hair)
- کچل adj (having little or no hair)
Polish
1 entries- łysy adj (having little or no hair)
Portuguese
2 entries- calvo adj (having little or no hair)
- careca adj (having little or no hair)
Quechua
1 entries- pagla adj (having little or no hair)
Romanian
2 entries- chel adj (having little or no hair)
- pleșuv adj (having little or no hair)
Russian
2 entries- лы́сый adj (having little or no hair)
- плеши́вый adj (having little or no hair)
Sanskrit
3 entries- ऋक्ष adj (having little or no hair)
- कुल्व adj (having little or no hair)
- खार्वाटक adj (having little or no hair)
Sasak
1 entries- butak adj (having little or no hair)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- maol adj (having little or no hair)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- ćȅlav adj (having little or no hair)
- ће̏лав adj (having little or no hair)
Shor
1 entries- тас adj (having little or no hair)
Sicilian
2 entries- pilatu adj (having little or no hair)
- tignusu adj (having little or no hair)
Slovak
1 entries- plešatý adj (having little or no hair)
Slovene
1 entries- plešast adj (having little or no hair)
Southern Altai
1 entries- тас adj (having little or no hair)
Spanish
4 entries- calvo adj (having little or no hair)
- moroncho adj (having little or no hair)
- morondo adj (having little or no hair)
- pajla adj (having little or no hair)
Sudovian
1 entries- plikas adj (having little or no hair)
Sundanese
1 entries- butak adj (having little or no hair)
Swedish
2 entries- flintskallig adj (having little or no hair)
- skallig adj (having little or no hair)
Tagalog
3 entries- kalbo adj (having little or no hair)
- kutipyo adj (having little or no hair)
- upaw adj (having little or no hair)
Tajik
1 entries- тос adj (having little or no hair)
Tamil
1 entries- சொட்டை adj (having little or no hair)
Telugu
1 entries- బట్టతల adj (having little or no hair)
Thai
2 entries- ล้าน adj (having little or no hair)
- โล้น adj (having little or no hair)
Turkish
2 entries- dazlak adj (having little or no hair)
- kel adj (having little or no hair)
Turkmen
1 entries- sakar adj (having little or no hair)
Udi
1 entries- каьчаьл adj (having little or no hair)
Ukrainian
2 entries- ли́сий adj (having little or no hair)
- пліши́вий adj (having little or no hair)
Upper Sorbian
1 entries- plěchaty adj (having little or no hair)
Urdu
1 entries- گنجا adj (having little or no hair)
Uyghur
1 entries- يالىئڭاچ adj (having little or no hair)
Uzbek
3 entries- kal adj (having little or no hair)
- siyqa adj (having little or no hair)
- toz adj (having little or no hair)
Vietnamese
2 entries- hói adj (having little or no hair)
- trọc adj (having little or no hair)
Walloon
4 entries- pelake adj (having little or no hair)
- pelot adj (having little or no hair)
- pelé adj (having little or no hair)
- tchenou adj (having little or no hair)
Welsh
1 entries- moel adj (having little or no hair)
West-Frisian
1 entries- keal adj (having little or no hair)
Woiwurrung
1 entries- taweet adj (having little or no hair)
Yakan
1 entries- tukung adj (having little or no hair)
Yiddish
2 entries- ליסע adj (having little or no hair)
- פּליכעוואַטע adj (having little or no hair)
Yucatec Maya
1 entries- k'olis adj (having little or no hair)
Sample sentences
26 total sentences available.
Don't worry too much, or you'll go bald.
Source: tatoeba (67682)
My father is as bald as a billiard ball.
Source: tatoeba (251650)
I don't want to go bald when I'm still young.
Source: tatoeba (252273)
Showing 4 of 26 available sentences.
Common questions
What are the closest synonyms for "bald"?
Closest matches include acomous, alopecic, ascetic, austere, bald-headed.
How should I check whether a synonym fits "bald"?
Compare the replacement against real sentence context. This entry includes sample sentences so you can check tone, grammar, and meaning before swapping words.