hairless

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hairless

/ˈhɛələs/ UK
/ˈhɛɹləs/ US
/hɛɚləs/ US
/ˈheːləs/ Australia
/ˈhiələs/
/ˈheələs/ New Zealand
/ˈheɹləs/ Scotland
/ˈhɜː(ɹ)ləs/

Rhymes with -ɛə(ɹ)ləs

Where it comes from

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

adjective

not comparable Destitute of hair.
not comparable 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.

Similar: glabrous

noun hairlesses

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.

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adjective

Similar: glabrous

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adj destitute of hair

Español	pelado, desvellado, descuerado, lampiño, viringo, calato
日本語	無毛 mumō
中文	無毛 /无毛 wúmáo
Português	careca, calvo, despelado
Français	glabre
Deutsch	haarlos, unbehaart
Ελληνικά	σπανός spanós
Русский	безволо́сый bezvolósyj
العربية	أَجْرَد ʔajrad

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@misc{hairless_2026,
  title = {hairless},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/hairless},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}