wigless

1 6.3

Not wearing fake hair

adjective
/ˈwɪɡləs/

: sin peluca

She decided to go wigless for the summer to embrace her natural look.

Examples

A wigless day.

Fiction book (1996)
Feeling confident, he walked into the party wigless and proud of his bald head.
After losing his hair, he chose to live wigless, feeling freer and more comfortable.

Antonyms

wigged

2 8.1

Wearing false hair on the head

Surface Forms

wigless positive

Morphology

wigless = wig (transparent) = wig + less

Productive and regular formation: 'wig' + '-less' yields 'without a wig', a meaning directly inferable by learners.

Etymology

The word wigless is made from wig and the ending -less, where -less means 'without', just like in homeless, so wigless simply means 'not wearing a wig'.