Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Having little or no hair.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Destitute of hair; bald: as, hairless scalps.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Destitute of hair; bald.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. having no hair or fur
Etymologies
- hair + -less. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“WESTHOVEN: I am curious why he chose the word hairless instead of bald.”
“Handsome one called his hairless face: the nose delicate, the lips negroid in their thick pout, the left eye red, streaked with bloodshot, the eyes 'brown brightness very beautiful and strange, with a sideward stare wild as that sideward stare of the race-horse; and the lids had a way of lifting largely anon.”
“Over the shelves, which were about at chin level, like they usually were in convenience stores, I could see what could only be described as a hairless bear, its arms out in front, Frankenstein-like, lurching toward me.”
“They also saw a mutation in the gene dubbed "hairless," previously seen to cause baldness in mice and humans, which could explain how they lost their fur.”
“Sun is nuclear frequency magnetic electic air, chemo makes you totally hairless, which is alien silicon skinless,. (chemo treatment of nuclear frequency bombardment removed silicon alien skin),.”
“Many tropical microsheep are "hairless," and have little or no wool.”
“Aren't armenians super hairy … so hairless with more laser removal than Chewbacca. so basically she's admitting that rather than being "hairless", she's actually covered in hair like a yeti and has to have it all lasered off to keep from being drug off to the zoo every month. that's actually pretty gross. think about what that full body stubble feels like when it's growing back.”
“The Pakistani man in the photograph behind her is a member of a family studied by researchers to detect the "hairless" ge”
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“Oh wait, so does "hairless" .... how about UGLY mole rats?”
“In Hirsute, a bizarre short film written and directed by A.J. Bond, a young time traveler is confronted by an arrogant and hairless future version of himself.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘hairless’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11250 more...
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-more or -less
Words ending with *more or *less, more or less. Many of theses terms also appear on the list The -less Said, which see.
schemaless, unless, useless, guileless, wireless, regardless, homeless, endless, nevertheless, countless, jobless, doubtless and 434 more...
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Words grabbed from real life conversa...
If I've seen it, heard it, or marvelled at it, I'll stick it here.
cruft, ermine, redundant, shakespearean, camino, marvelous, stupendous, chagrin, shaven, sleek, smug, stillness and 325 more...
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The -less Said...
hopeless, bootless, groundless, luckless, artless, feckless, hapless, joyless, useless, penniless, childless, peerless and 310 more...
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hairstyles
bun, bobtail, ponytail, cornrow, odango*, updo, bouffant, plait, braid, bunches, buzzcut, combover and 331 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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