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[English4everyone]

What word(s) do you use to refer to a person that is not completely bald? I mean we use bald for a person that doesn't have any hair. What do we use if that person has a little hair or the center of his head has no hair?

 

[Barb_D]

Balding.
or
He has a receding hairline.

 

[BobK]

:up: And in a context that obviously refers to hair, you can say 'thinning'.

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[English4everyone]

But how can we use it? :-?
1. He has thinning hair.
2. He is thinning.

 

[tzfujimino]

Hello.:-D
I've found "follicly challenged" here: follicly challenged - Wiktionary
I'm not sure if it is natural English or not, though.

But how can we use it?

1. He has thinning hair.
2. He is thinning.

Please see here: http://www.learnersdictionary.com/search/thin (Click on 2) thin (verb))

 

[emsr2d2]

We don't use "He is thinning" on its own but you will hear "He is thinning on top" or "He is thinning at the sides".

 

[BobK]

Hello.:-D
I've found "follicly challenged" here: follicly challenged - Wiktionary
I'm not sure if it is natural English or not, though....

It's used, fairly informally - it's a gentle joke about PC language (the requirement to say, say, 'hearing-impaired' instead of 'deaf' - but that's a bad example, because there are degrees of impairment; still....) ;-)

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