hairless

English

Etymology

From hair +‎ -less.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈhɛələs/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈhɛɹləs/, /hɛɚləs/

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• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈheːləs/
• (New Zealand, cheer–chair merger) IPA^(key): /ˈhiələs/
• (New Zealand, without the cheer–chair merger) IPA^(key): /ˈheələs/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /ˈheɹləs/
• (Lancashire, fair–fur merger) IPA^(key): /ˈhɜː(ɹ)ləs/
• Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)ləs

Adjective

hairless (not comparable)

1. Destitute of hair.
2. Bald.
   • 2021 March 14, Michael Segalov, “It can leave your self-image fractured”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     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.

Synonyms

• glabrous

Derived terms

• hairlessly
• hairlessness
• macrohairless

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
• Dutch: onbehaard (nl)
• 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), lampiño (es), viringo (es) (hairless dog), calato (es) (of a dog)
• Tagalog: kutipyo
• Turkish: kılsız (tr)
• Ukrainian: безволо́сий m (bezvolósyj)
• Welsh: di-flew (animals), llyfn (cy) (face), di-wallt (head)

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

• slashier