Yes. The meanings in items 5 and 6 refer. You will see my comment above:
"The word was BALDLY. The answer was (I am sure) correct, but not very detailed. I was noting the lack of detail, not that there was anything wrong with what was there."
Autocrat wrote a bald, blunt statement of policy - there was no extra detail. Are you beginning to comprehend English usage a little better now?
If you need to understand more about how the word is used, I suggest that you google 'He wrote baldly'. You will find many thousand references for this usage..... |