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bareheaded

bareheaded adjective: having no covering on the head.

Adjective

bareheaded (not comparable)

  1. Having no covering on the head.
    • Under the portico, with its grey sun-bleached pillars, loitered a troop of draggled bareheaded girls, waiting for the auction to be over.1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter VII, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London; New York, N.Y.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC, page 131
    • The Jew wears a headcover in order not to walk bareheaded.1996, Macy Nulman, The Encyclopedia of Jewish Prayer, page 116

Adverb

bareheaded (not comparable)

  1. With no covering on the head.

Forms of bareheaded

alternative formbare-headed

Origin of bareheaded

From bare + headed.

Words formed from bareheaded

Questions about bareheaded

What does bareheaded mean?
Bareheaded means having no covering on the head.
What part of speech is bareheaded?
Bareheaded can be an adjective or an adverb.

Words near bareheaded in the dictionary

  1. barehand
  2. barehanded
  3. barehandedly
  4. barehandedness
  5. barehead
  6. bareheaded
  7. bareheadedness
  8. bareia
  9. Bareilles
  10. Bareilleses
  11. Bareilly

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