baldly
baldly adverb: in a bald (blunt, matter-of-fact, unembellished, or lacking supporting details) manner.
Adverb
baldly (comparative more baldly, superlative most baldly)
- In a bald (blunt, matter-of-fact, unembellished, or lacking supporting details) manner.
- For they who ſuppoſe that Hades, that is to ſay, Pluto, is ſaid to be the body and as it were the ſepulcher of the ſoule, as if it ſeemed to be fooliſh and drunken all the while ſhe is within it, me thinkes they doe allegorize but very baldly.1603, Plutarch, “Of Isis and Osiris”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Philosophie, Commonlie Called, The Morals […], London: […] Arnold Hatfield, →OCLC, page 1298, lines 48–51
- The record of the third stage in Amos’ illumination is all too scanty. The seeër describes it so bluntly, so baldly, that one cannot help feeling disappointed. Evidently he felt that what he then saw was far beyond words; and so, with his wonted veracity, he made no attempt at description. He...1923, W[illiam] Winslow Hall, “Amos”, in Hebrew Illumination: A Study in Essential Religion, London: The C[harles] W[illiam] Daniel Co. […], →OCLC, page 90
Forms of baldly
| comparative | more baldly |
|---|---|
| superlative | most baldly |
Origin of baldly
From bald + -ly.
Questions about baldly
- What does baldly mean?
- Baldly means in a bald (blunt, matter-of-fact, unembellished, or lacking supporting details) manner.
- What part of speech is baldly?
- Baldly is an adverb.
Words near baldly in the dictionary
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