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wigless

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

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'.