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hairless

UK/ˈhɛələs//ˈhɛɹləs/

hairless adjective: destitute of hair.

Adjective

hairless (not comparable)

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

Noun

hairless (plural hairlesses)

  1. An animal of a hairless breed.
    • 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.2012, Marieke Hardy, Michaela McGuire, Sincerely: Women of Letters

hairless meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Malayalam and Sanskrit

hairless in Tamil

முடியற்ற, உரோமமற்ற, மயிரற்ற

hairless in Bengali

hairless, having a little hair on the scalp
অকেশা okeśa, অকেশী okeśi, অকেশিনী okeśini

hairless in Malayalam

hairless
മൊണ്ണൻ moṇṇaṉ, മോഴൻ mōḻaṉ

hairless in Sanskrit

destitute of hair
अकेश akeśa
More languagesFewer languages
hairless in Tagalog
kutipyo
hairless in Arabic
أَجْرَد ʔajrad
hairless in Persian
بیمو bi-mu

Synonyms of hairless

Forms of hairless

pluralhairlesses

Origin of hairless

From hair + -less. Piecewise doublet of hair loss. Cognate with German haarlos.

Words formed from hairless

Phrases with hairless

Words that rhyme with hairless

Questions about hairless

What does hairless mean?
Hairless means destitute of hair.
What is hairless in Tamil?
Hairless in Tamil is முடியற்ற, உரோமமற்ற, மயிரற்ற. See Hairless meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is hairless?
Hairless can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce hairless?
Hairless is pronounced /ˈhɛələs/ (UK).

Words near hairless in the dictionary

  1. hairing
  2. hairings
  3. hairism
  4. hairist
  5. hairists
  6. hairless
  7. hairlesses
  8. hairlessly
  9. hairlessness
  10. hairlet
  11. hairlets

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hairless (page history and authors); hairless (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); অকেশা (Bengali) (page history and authors); മൊണ്ണൻ (Malayalam) (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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