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bareheaded

bareheaded

1 3.9
Not wearing a hat or other head covering
  • adjective
  • /ˈbɛrˌhɛdɪd/
translation icon : sin sombrero
  • Walking bareheaded under the summer sun, he quickly regretted not wearing a hat.
  • a bareheaded man

Examples

  • The bareheaded man tilted his head to look through the hole in the thatch roof.

    Fiction book (2000)
  • They balance them carefully atop their heads because God frowns on bareheaded women, or priests do, and then the three kneel in the shadows.

    Fiction book (2000)
  • The Bareheaded Shadow Man with him is police.

    Fiction book (1990)
  • The bareheaded man draped his entire body over the table.

    Fiction book (2000)
  • "Just like in the fairy tale," the bareheaded man was still pensive.

    Fiction book (2000)
  • "Some sort of incense," the bareheaded man said pensively.

    Fiction book (2000)
  • In came a bareheaded lieutenant of slender build and medium height, his face marked with a few freckles.

    Fiction book (2000)
  • Bareheaded and barefoot, they wear a variety of red or blue cloaks with white trousers.

    Academic text (2006)
  • Fierce as a dog with tongue lapping for action, cunning as a savage pitted against the wilderness, bareheaded, shoveling, wrecking, planning, building, breaking, rebuilding, under the smoke, dust all over his mouth, laughing with white teeth.

    Blog text (29)
  • The bareheaded man felt the cool breeze on his scalp as he walked through the park.

Synonyms

hatless
vsbareheaded
1 3.6

Not wearing a hat

is broader, meaning no head covering of any kind
bonnetless
vsbareheaded
  • Archaic
6.6

A person without a small hat that ties under the chin

is broader, covering absence of any head covering not just that style

Antonyms

3 5.8

Wearing a hat, often a particular kind

1 1.0

Having something on top or around it

How Covered

hatted
3 5.8
bareheaded
1 3.9

Surface Forms

bareheaded positive

Morphology

bareheaded = bare + head (transparent) = bare + head + ed

The adjective is formed by applying the adjective-forming '-ed' to the clear compound 'bare' + 'head', yielding 'having a bare head'.

Etymology

The word bareheaded comes from bare meaning 'naked' and head meaning 'head'. So, it literally means 'with the head uncovered', like barefoot but for your head.