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hairless

adjective

  1. without hair
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Pronunciation: /ˈhɛələs/ / /ˈhɛɹləs/ / /hɛɚləs/

adj

Etymology: From hair + -less. Piecewise doublet of hair loss. Cognate with German haarlos.

  1. Destitute of hair.
  2. Bald.

    There has never been a bald James Bond nor a hairless contestant on Love Island. Growing up, bald men were never the superheroes and always the villains.

noun

Etymology: From hair + -less. Piecewise doublet of hair loss. Cognate with German haarlos.

  1. An animal of a hairless breed.

    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.

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