bare
1without covering or clothing; naked; nude: bare legs.
without the usual furnishings, contents, etc.: bare walls.
open to view; unconcealed; undisguised: his bare dislike of neckties.
unadorned; bald; plain: the bare facts.
(of cloth) napless or threadbare.
scarcely or just sufficient; mere: the bare necessities of life.
Obsolete. with the head uncovered; bareheaded.
to open to view; reveal or divulge: to bare one's arms; to bare damaging new facts.
Origin of bare
1synonym study For bare
Other words for bare
Opposites for bare
Other words from bare
- barish, adjective
- bareness, noun
Other definitions for bare (2 of 2)
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How to use bare in a sentence
So rather than drop their leaves later as temperatures increase, deciduous species will actually go bare earlier in the season.
Climate change is affecting fall foliage, but not in the way you think | Ula Chrobak | November 30, 2020 | Popular-ScienceShe realized she was in a pair of shorts, and her webcam was picking up — and recording — seconds of her bare legs that could be seen by her older male professor.
College Students Are Learning Hard Lessons About Anti-Cheating Software | Kara Grant | November 30, 2020 | Voice of San DiegoIf your coat of paint peels, too, your remaining option would be to start fresh with bare wood.
Why does the paint keep peeling on my bathroom vanity? | Jeanne Huber | November 23, 2020 | Washington PostThe algal partner in a lichen can’t make a living on bare rock without striking up a relationship with a fungus.
The Fungal Evangelist Who Would Save the Bees - Issue 90: Something Green | Merlin Sheldrake | September 23, 2020 | NautilusThe officers’ colleagues responded by pulling back on the job, doing only the bare minimum in the following weeks.
What Can Mayors Do When the Police Stop Doing Their Jobs? | by Alec MacGillis | September 3, 2020 | ProPublica
It was May and the keen light raked her room, laying its bareness still more bare.
The Creators | May SinclairThe resignation of this man, the terrible bareness of his obscure existence, oppressed me.
Contemporary Russian Novelists | Serge PerskyHe respects truth to such a degree that he offers it to his readers in its disconcerting bareness.
Contemporary Russian Novelists | Serge PerskyBefore the curtains of history lifted, one feels the world was like this—this Celtic bareness and sombreness and air.
Sea and Sardinia | D. H. LawrenceShe had never been in Winn's room before, and as she sat down to wait for him her eyes took in its neat impressive bareness.
The Dark Tower | Phyllis Bottome
British Dictionary definitions for bare (1 of 2)
/ (bɛə) /
unclothed; exposed: used esp of a part of the body
without the natural, conventional, or usual covering or clothing: a bare tree
lacking appropriate furnishings, etc: a bare room
unembellished; simple: the bare facts
(prenomial) just sufficient; mere: he earned the bare minimum
with one's bare hands without a weapon or tool
(tr) to make bare; uncover; reveal
Origin of bare
1Derived forms of bare
- bareness, noun
British Dictionary definitions for bare (2 of 2)
/ (bɛə) /
archaic a past tense of bear 1
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