Dictionary Definition
bare adj
1 denuded of leaves; "the bare branches of
winter"
2 completely unclothed; "bare bodies"; "naked
from the waist up"; "a nude model" [syn: au
naturel(p), naked,
nude]
3 lacking in amplitude or quantity; "a bare
livelihood"; "a scanty harvest"; "a spare diet" [syn: bare(a), scanty, spare]
4 without the natural or usual covering; "a bald
spot on the lawn"; "bare hills" [syn: bald, denuded, denudate]
5 not having a protective covering; "unsheathed
cables"; "a bare blade" [syn: unsheathed] [ant: sheathed]
6 just barely adequate or within a lower limit;
"a bare majority"; "a marginal victory" [syn: bare(a), marginal]
7 apart from anything else; without additions or
modifications; "only the bare facts"; "shocked by the mere idea";
"the simple passage of time was enough"; "the simple truth" [syn:
bare(a),
mere(a),
simple(a)]
8 lacking a surface finish such as paint; "bare
wood"; "unfinished furniture" [syn: unfinished]
9 providing no shelter or sustenance; "bare rocky
hills"; "barren lands"; "the bleak treeless regions of the high
Andes"; "the desolate surface of the moon"; "a stark landscape"
[syn: barren, bleak, desolate, stark]
10 having extraneous everything removed including
contents; "the bare walls"; "the cupboard was bare" [syn: stripped]
11 showing ground without the usual covering of
grass; "a carefully swept bare yard around the house"
Verb
1 lay bare; "bare your breasts"; "bare your
feelings"
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- , /beə(r)/, /be@(r)/
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- Rhymes with: -ɛə(r)
Homophones
Etymology 1
bær.Adjective
- Minimal; that is or
are just sufficient.
- the bare necessities
- Naked, uncovered.
- Don't show your bare backside in public.
- Having no supplies.
- a room bare of furniture
- The cupboard was bare.
- a room bare of furniture
- Having no decoration.
- The walls of this room are bare — why not hang some paintings on them?
- Having had what usually covers (something) removed.
- The trees were left bare after the swarm of locusts devoured all the leaves.
- A lot or lots of.
- This pornos bare whack bruv
Synonyms
Antonyms
Derived terms
- ace bare
- bareback
- barebacked
- bare boards
- bareboat
- barebone
- bare bones
- bare-breasted
- bare-chested
- barefaced
- barefoot, barefooted
- barehanded
- bareheaded
- bare-knuckle fight
- barelegged
- barely
- bareness
- bare one's soul
- bare patch
- barish
- in one's bare skin
- king bare
- lay bare
- threadbare
- with one's bare hands
Translations
naked, uncovered
minimal
having no supplies
having no decoration
- Dutch: kaal
having had what usually covers (something)
removed
Noun
the bare (always with the definite article)- the naked state, nude body
Etymology 2
barian.Etymology 3
Inflected forms.Verb
bare- simple past of bear
References
Century 1911}}Basque
Adjective
Extensive Definition
Bare means minimal or naked. Bare may also refer
to:
Places:
- Bare, Morecambe, a suburb of Morecambe, in Lancashire, England
- Bare (woreda), a district in Ethiopia
- Bare (Serbia), a place in Serbia
- Bărăi, Cluj, a village in Romania, formerly called Bare
In music:
- Bare (Annie Lennox album)
- Bare (album), an album by Barb Jungr
- Bare (EP), by Little Nobody
- Bare, a Pop Opera, a musical story of two gay high school students
Other:
- Jader Volnei Spindler, Brazilian football player, nicknamed "Bare"
bare in French: Bare
bare in Italian: Bare
bare in Serbian: Баре (вишезначна
одредница)
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Spartan, absolute, and, ascetic, austere, bald, bankrupt, bare-ass, bared, barren, basic, bland, blank, bleached, bleak, break the seal, bring to
light, candid, characterless, chaste, clarified, clear, cleared, cold, common, commonplace, deep-worn,
defoliate, defoliated, denudate, denude, denuded, deobstruct, depleted, deprive, desert, desolate, destitute, develop, devoid, direct, disclose, disclosed, discover, dismantle, dismask, disrobe, distilled, divest, divested, divulge, dog-eared, draw the
veil, dried-up, dry,
dull, elementary, emptied, empty, essential, exhausted, exhibit, expose, exposed, featureless, fleece, frank, free, fundamental, gymnosophical, hairless, hard, hatless, hollow, homely, homespun, homogeneous, impart, in native buff, in puris
naturalibus, in the altogether, in the buff, in the raw, inane, indivisible, insipid, irreducible, lay bare, lay
open, lean, let daylight
in, let out, literal,
manifest,
matter-of-fact, mere,
minimal, monolithic, naked, natural, naturistic, neat, nude, nudist, null, null and void, of a piece,
open, open as day, open to
all, open up, out-and-out, overt, patefy, peeled, plain, plain-speaking,
plain-spoken, pluck,
primal, primary, prosaic, prosing, prosy, pure, pure and simple, purified, raise the curtain,
raw, rectified, remove, reveal, revealed, rustic, scant, scanty, sere, severe, shear, sheer, shelfworn, shopworn, shorn, show, show up, simon-pure, simple, simple-speaking, single, sober, spare, stark, stark-naked, straight, straightforward,
strip, strip bare,
stripped, tell, threadbare, timeworn, unadorned, unadulterated, unaffected, unalloyed, unarrayed, unattired, unblended, unblock, uncase, unclad, unclassified, unclench, uncloak, unclog, unclogged, unclosed, unclothed, unclutch, uncluttered, uncombined, uncomplicated, uncompounded, unconcealed, uncork, uncorrupted, uncover, uncovered, uncurtain, undecked, undecorated, undifferenced, undifferentiated,
undiluted, undisguised, undo, undrape, undress, undressed, unembellished, unenhanced, unfilled, unfold, unfortified, unfoul, unfurbished, unfurl, ungarnished, unhidden, uniform, unimaginative, unkennel, unlatch, unleavened, unlock, unmask, unmingled, unmixed, unobstructed, unornamented, unpack, unplug, unpoetical, unrelieved, unrestricted, unrobed, unroll, unscreen, unseal, unsheathe, unshod, unshroud, unshut, unsophisticated,
unstop, unstopped, unsupplied, untinged, untrimmed, unvarnished, unveil, unwrap, vacant, vacuous, void, well-worn, white, wide-open, with nothing
inside, with nothing on, without a stitch, without content,
worn, worn ragged, worn to
rags, worn to threads, worn-down