hairless

English

Etymology

From hair +‎ -less.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈhɛɹ.ləs/

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• Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)ləs

Adjective

hairless (not comparable)

1. Destitute of hair.
2. Bald.

Synonyms

• glabrous

Translations

destitute of hair

• Arabic: أَجْرَد (ʔajrad)
• Belarusian: безвало́сы m (bjezvalósy)
• Bulgarian: неокосмен (neokosmen), без коса (bez kosa)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 無毛／无毛 (zh) (wúmáo)

• Czech: bezvlasý
• Finnish: karvaton (fi)
• French: glabre (fr)
• German: haarlos (de), unbehaart (de)
• Greek: σπανός (el) (spanós)
• Hungarian: szőrtelen (hu)
• Ido: senhara (io)
• Japanese: 無毛 (ja) (むもう, mumō)
• Latin: glaber
• Macedonian: ќос m (ḱos)
• Manx: meayl
• Ottoman Turkish: تویسز (tüysüz)
• Persian: بی‌مو (fa) (bi-mu)
• Polish: bezwłosy (pl)
• Portuguese: careca (pt) (of the head), calvo (pt) (of the head), despelado (of the body)
• Russian: безволо́сый (ru) (bezvolósyj)
• Sanskrit: अकेश (sa) (akeśa)
• Spanish: pelado (es), desvellado, calvo (es), descuerado (es)
• Tagalog: kutipyo
• Turkish: kılsız (tr)
• Ukrainian: безволо́сий m (bezvolósyj)

bald — see bald

Noun

hairless (plural hairlesses)

1. An animal of a hairless breed.
   • 2012, Marieke Hardy, Michaela McGuire, Sincerely: Women of Letters:

     Boston terriers and bulldogs, poodles and Pomeranians; there was even a pair of Mexican hairlesses, who looked like they'd had thirty rounds of chemotherapy.

Derived terms

• Mexican hairless

Anagrams

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