👨‍🦲 Partly bald 🌾 Partly bare 📄 Plain or blunt

baldish

6.5

Having patches without cover, like a field with little grass

adjective
/ˈbɔːldɪʃ/

: desnudo

After the drought, the field looked baldish with only a few patches of grass remaining.

Examples

In early spring, the garden appears baldish before the new plants start to grow.
The old rug was baldish in the center where people walked the most.
The garden looked baldish after the winter frost.
He has a baldish spot on the top of his head.
After the drought, the field looked baldish with only a few patches of grass remaining.
In early spring, the garden appears baldish before the new plants start to grow.
The old rug was baldish in the center where people walked the most.

Synonyms

bald

vsbaldish

280 1.0

Having little or no hair on the head

is milder meaning somewhat bare rather than completely without covering

hairless

vsbaldish

26 1.7

Having no fur or small threads that grow on the skin

is milder meaning somewhat bare rather than completely without hair

nonhairy

vsbaldish

5.8

A part of the body that has no hair

is milder meaning only somewhat bare not completely without hair

Antonyms

lush

51 3.7

Rich and full, like thick plants or juicy fruit

covered

1 1.0

Having something on top or around it

How Bare

bare

217 2.2

baldish

6.5

sparse

31 5.0

patchy

11 3.7

Surface Forms

baldish positive

Morphology

baldish = bald (semi-transparent) = bald + ish

The form 'bald' + '-ish' is clear, but the sense applied to land/vegetation is a metaphorical extension from hair to surface covering.

Etymology

Baldish is made from bald ('bare' or 'without covering') and the ending -ish ('somewhat'), so it means 'somewhat bare', for example land or a rug with little covering.