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Kimaunz
Senior Member
Korean - South Korea
- Jul 12, 2022
- #1
Hi,
I'd like to know if there are any unnatural sentences below:
He has a full head of hair.
He has a rich head of hair.
He has a thick head of hair.
He has a good head of hair.
elroy
Moderator: EHL, Arabic, Hebrew, German(-Spanish)
Chicago, IL
US English, Palestinian Arabic bilingual
- Jul 12, 2022
- #2
I would only use “full.”
K
Kimaunz
Senior Member
Korean - South Korea
- Jul 12, 2022
- #3
How about "He has a fine head of hair."?
ewie
Senior Member
Manchester
English English
- Jul 12, 2022
- #4
I'm happy with good, full and fine; undecided about thick; definitely not rich.
Wordy McWordface
Senior Member
SSBE (Standard Southern British English)
- Jul 12, 2022
- #5
"Fine" is possible if you're using it to mean "impressive". For example, "Bob is 85 but he still has a fine head of hair". You might want to avoid it, though, as "fine" can be ambiguous when you're talking about hair.
I agree with Ewie about the others. "Good" and "full" are normal, "thick" is less usual and "rich" is wrong.
TGW
Senior Member
At the bottom of the mountain The Great Wall is on
Mandarin
- Jul 12, 2022
- #6
Wordy McWordface said:
as "fine" can be ambiguous when you're talking about hair.
He has a full head of fine hair. 
ewie
Senior Member
Manchester
English English
- Jul 12, 2022
- #7
On the subject of thick, I might say "He has a full head of thick hair" ~ just to avoid accidentally calling him a thickhead
K
Kimaunz
Senior Member
Korean - South Korea
- Jul 12, 2022
- #8
What would be the opposite of "He has a full head of hair."? Is it "He has a thin head of hair."?
elroy
Moderator: EHL, Arabic, Hebrew, German(-Spanish)
Chicago, IL
US English, Palestinian Arabic bilingual
- Jul 12, 2022
- #9
He's bald.
cidertree
Senior Member
Gran Canaria
Hiberno-English
- Jul 12, 2022
- #10
I would probably have gone with "He's balding."
elroy
Moderator: EHL, Arabic, Hebrew, German(-Spanish)
Chicago, IL
US English, Palestinian Arabic bilingual
- Jul 12, 2022
- #11
Well, I went for the extreme, since we were asked for "the opposite."
K
Kimaunz
Senior Member
Korean - South Korea
- Jul 12, 2022
- #12
elroy said:
He's bald.
"bald" means "having no hair." What I want to know is a head with a little hair.
cidertree
Senior Member
Gran Canaria
Hiberno-English
- Jul 12, 2022
- #13
Balding, or baldish.
elroy
Moderator: EHL, Arabic, Hebrew, German(-Spanish)
Chicago, IL
US English, Palestinian Arabic bilingual
- Jul 12, 2022
- #14
Kimaunz said:
"bald" means "having no hair."
Yes, and having NO hair would be the opposite of having a FULL HEAD of hair. The opposite of a full glass of water is an empty glass, not a glass with little water.
Anyway...
"He's balding" could work, but that could refer to many different degrees of baldness. It might help if you posted a picture. How little hair are we talking?
K
Kimaunz
Senior Member
Korean - South Korea
- Jul 12, 2022
- #15
Maybe... "He has a thin head of hair." or "He has a spare head of hair."?
cidertree
Senior Member
Gran Canaria
Hiberno-English
- Jul 12, 2022
- #16
Nope.
elroy
Moderator: EHL, Arabic, Hebrew, German(-Spanish)
Chicago, IL
US English, Palestinian Arabic bilingual
- Jul 12, 2022
- #17
Kimaunz said:
"He has a thin head of hair."
No.
Kimaunz said:
or "He has a spare head of hair."?
No, and
Did you mean "sparse"? (That wouldn't work either.)
The problem is that "full head" is used as a unit of measurement, as it were. You can't ordinarily modify "head of hair" to refer to how much hair someone has.
K
Kimaunz
Senior Member
Korean - South Korea
- Jul 12, 2022
- #18
Then which ones are correct among the following?:
He has a full hair.
He has a thick hair.
He has a lot of hair.
He has much hair.
He has a ton of hair.
He has tons of hair.
His hair is thick.
He has little hair.
He has a little hair.
He has a thin hair.
His hair is thin.
cidertree
Senior Member
Gran Canaria
Hiberno-English
- Jul 12, 2022
- #19
What exactly do you want to describe?
K
Kimaunz
Senior Member
Korean - South Korea
- Jul 12, 2022
- #20
I just want to know which ones are used in real life among the above.
cidertree
Senior Member
Gran Canaria
Hiberno-English
- Jul 12, 2022
- #21
I wouldn't use any of them.
K
Kimaunz
Senior Member
Korean - South Korea
- Jul 12, 2022
- #22
cidertree said:
I wouldn't use any of them.
Do you mean none of the expressions above is used in everyday life? Haven't you heard any of them?
cidertree
Senior Member
Gran Canaria
Hiberno-English
- Jul 12, 2022
- #23
Kimaunz said:
Do you mean none of the expressions above is used in everyday life? Haven't you heard any of them?
I mean exactly what I said.
Some of them are simply incorrect - I probably have heard these mistakes before - and those that are not incorrect are phrased in a way I wouldn't use.
K
Kimaunz
Senior Member
Korean - South Korea
- Jul 12, 2022
- #24
cidertree said:
I mean exactly what I said.
Some of them are simply incorrect - I probably have heard these mistakes before - and those that are not incorrect are phrased in a way I wouldn't use.
Then how would you describe a man with a little hair using the phrase "He has ...." or something else?
cidertree
Senior Member
Gran Canaria
Hiberno-English
- Jul 12, 2022
- #25
We're going round in circles here.
You've already been given a couple of suggestions in the thread. If they are not suitable, you will have to tell us why - and tell us what exactly you do want to describe.
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a little edgy
Senior Member
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
English
- Jul 12, 2022
- #26
Kimaunz said:
Then how would you describe a man with a little hair using the phrase "He has ...." or something else?
His hair is thinning.
He is balding.
He is nearly bald.
K
Kimaunz
Senior Member
Korean - South Korea
- Jul 12, 2022
- #27
Does using some of the following expressions have a certain degree of negative connotations?:
He has a full hair.
He has a thick hair.
He has a lot of hair.
He has much hair.
He has a ton of hair.
He has tons of hair.
His hair is thick.
He has little hair.
He has a little hair.
He has a thin hair.
His hair is thin.
cidertree
Senior Member
Gran Canaria
Hiberno-English
- Jul 12, 2022
- #28
This is the same list you posted in #18.
K
Kimaunz
Senior Member
Korean - South Korea
- Jul 12, 2022
- #29
Yes. I don't think you understand what I mean. Through this thread I came to know some expressions that I could use when I describe men who have much hair. I also want to know some of the expressions that I can use when I talk about men who have little or a little hair. Simple as that.
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