Difference between Bald-headed and Bald

What is the difference between Bald-headed and Bald?

Bald-headed as an adjective is having a bald head. while Bald as an adjective is having no hair or feathers.

Bald-headed

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Having a bald head. (of a square-rigged ship) not having the royals set. (of a fore-and-aft rigged ship) having the topmasts struck down.

Bald

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A mountain summit or crest that lacks forest growth despite a warm climate conducive to such, as is found in many places in the Southern Appalachian Mountains.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Having no hair or feathers.Of tyres: whose surface is worn away.Of a statement: empirically unsupported.

Example sentence: I was a young actor who was bald, but at that time, there was a thing on television that - there was a prototype or a stereotype of a principal who was bald and mean with glasses, or there was... the angry boss who was bald.

We hope you now know whether to use Bald-headed or Bald in your sentence.

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