Atrocious vs Bald - What's the difference?
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Frightful, evil, cruel or monstrous.
Offensive or heinous. (rfex)
Very bad; abominable or disgusting.
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Having no hair, fur or feathers.
* 1922 , (Margery Williams), (The Velveteen Rabbit)
# Having no hair on the head.
Of tyres: whose surface is worn away.
Of a statement: empirically unsupported.
(Appalachian) 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 .
Atrocious is a related term of bald.
As adjectives the difference between atrocious and bald
is that atrocious is frightful, evil, cruel or monstrous while bald is having no hair, fur or feathers.As a noun bald is
(appalachian) 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.As a verb bald is
to become bald.atrocious
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(en adjective)Usage notes
* Nouns to which "atrocious" is often applied: crime, act, murder, condition, spelling, grammar.bald
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(wikipedia bald) (er)- The Skin Horse had lived longer in the nursery than any of the others. He was so old that his brown coat was bald in patches and showed the seams underneath, and most of the hairs in his tail had been pulled out to string bead necklaces.
- a bald man with a moustache