Boldest vs Baldest - What's the difference?
boldest | baldest |
(bold)
Courageous, daring.
*, chapter=22
, title= * 2005 , (Plato), Sophist . Translation by Lesley Brown. .
(of a font) Having thicker strokes than the ordinary form of the typeface.
Presumptuous.
* 1748 , (David Hume), Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 9.
To make (a font or some text) bold.
(obsolete) To make bold or daring.
(obsolete) To become bold.
(Webster 1913)
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(bald)
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 .
As adjectives the difference between boldest and baldest
is that boldest is (bold) while baldest is (bald).boldest
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Adjective
(head)bold
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) bold, from (etyl) bold, blod, bolt, .Alternative forms
*Etymology 2
From (etyl) bold, bald, beald, from (etyl) bald, .Adjective
(boldness) (er)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part. Thus outraged, she showed herself to be a bold as well as a furious virago. Next day she found her way to their lodgings and tried to recover her ward by the hair of the head.}}
- It would be extraordinarily bold of me to give it a try after seeing what has happened to you.
- even the boldest and most affirmative philosophy, that has ever attempted to impose its crude dictates and principles on mankind.
Synonyms
* (courageous) audacious, brave, courageous, daring, forward * See alsoVerb
(en verb)- (Shakespeare)
baldest
English
Adjective
(head)Anagrams
* *bald
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Adjective
(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