adj
Meaning 1
Destitute of hair.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
hairless
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈhɛələs/
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General-American: /ˈhɛɹləs/
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General-American: /hɛɚləs/
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Australian: /ˈheːləs/
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/ˈhiələs/ New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
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New-Zealand: /ˈheələs/ without the cheer–chair merger
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Scotland: /ˈheɹləs/
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/ˈhɜː(ɹ)ləs/ Lancashire, fair–fur merger
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rhymes with -ɛə(ɹ)ləs
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CMU ARPABET: HH EH1 R L AH0 S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adj
Meaning 2
Bald.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
An animal of a hairless breed.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective
Meaning 4
having no hair or fur
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a Mexican Hairless is about the size of a fox terrier and hairless except for a tufts on the head and tail
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: hairy
History
Etymology
From hair + -less. Piecewise doublet of hair loss. Cognate with German haarlos.
Across languages
Translations
39 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: أَجْرَد (ʔajrad) — destitute of hair
- Belarusian: безвало́сы (bjezvalósy) — destitute of hair
- Bulgarian: неокосмен (neokosmen) — destitute of hair
- Bulgarian: без коса (bez kosa) — destitute of hair
- Chinese Mandarin: 無毛 /无毛 (wúmáo) — destitute of hair
- Czech: bezvlasý — destitute of hair
- Dutch: onbehaard — destitute of hair
- Finnish: karvaton — destitute of hair
- French: glabre — destitute of hair
- German: haarlos — destitute of hair
- German: unbehaart — destitute of hair
- Greek: σπανός (spanós) — destitute of hair
- Hungarian: szőrtelen — destitute of hair
- Ido: senhara — destitute of hair
- Japanese: 無毛 (mumō) — destitute of hair
- Latin: glaber — destitute of hair
- Macedonian: ќос (ḱos) — destitute of hair
- Manx: meayl — destitute of hair
- Persian: بیمو (bi-mu) — destitute of hair
- Polish: bezwłosy — destitute of hair
- Portuguese: careca — destitute of hair
- Portuguese: calvo — destitute of hair
- Portuguese: despelado — destitute of hair
- Russian: безволо́сый (bezvolósyj) — destitute of hair
- Sanskrit: अकेश (akeśa) — destitute of hair
- Spanish: pelado — destitute of hair
- Spanish: desvellado — destitute of hair
- Spanish: descuerado — destitute of hair
- Spanish: lampiño — destitute of hair
- Spanish: viringo — destitute of hair
- Spanish: calato — destitute of hair
- Tagalog: kutipyo — destitute of hair
- Turkish: kılsız — destitute of hair
- Ottoman Turkish: تویسز (tüysüz) — destitute of hair
- Ukrainian: безволо́сий (bezvolósyj) — destitute of hair
- Unami: pàmpiwsi — destitute of hair
- Welsh: di-flew — destitute of hair
- Welsh: llyfn — destitute of hair
- Welsh: di-wallt — destitute of hair
Real reading context