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hairless

adj.
B2 Upper Intermediate US //ˈhɛɹɫəs// UK //hˈeələs// hair·less

adj. having no hair on your body. You use this to describe people or animals that have lost all their natural hair.

adj. lacking hair on the body. Often used to describe the state of a person or animal after a medical procedure or natural condition.


SIMPLE

The baby is completely hairless at birth.

CONTEXTUAL

After the surgery, the patient was left with a hairless patch of skin where the incision was made.

COMPLEX

The evolutionary transition from a hairy to a hairless body is a defining characteristic of the human lineage, though some primates still retain significant amounts of body hair.

Antonyms
Origin

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

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