balding
balding is the present participle and gerund of bald.
Meaning of bald
Verb
bald (third-person singular simple present balds, present participle balding, simple past and past participle balded)
- To become bald.
- To make bald.
- He looked like a new Army recruit. "You've balded me!" he cried. He was so mad and hurt. He told Mom he wasn't going back to school until his hair grew out.2009, Bill Murray, Renegade Colonel, page 34
Adjective
balding (comparative more balding, superlative most balding)
- Becoming bald, especially having male pattern baldness.
- […] doing variations on Old Devil Moon on trumpet, backed by an aging hippy on drums, a stringbeany, college student type on upright bass, and a balding man in his fifties playing an effectively understated piano.2002, Laurance L. Priddy, Critical Evidence, page 96
Proper noun capitalized: Balding
Balding (plural Baldings)
- A surname.
Forms of balding
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more balding |
| superlative | most balding |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Baldings |
Words formed from balding
Questions about balding
- What does balding mean?
- Balding means becoming bald, especially having male pattern baldness.
- What is balding the present participle and gerund of?
- Balding is the present participle and gerund of bald.
- What part of speech is balding?
- Balding can be an adjective or a proper noun.
Words near balding in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: balding (page history and authors); Balding (page history and authors); bald (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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