bare

Plural: bares

Verb

Verb Forms: bared, baring, bares

• To uncover and expose to view.
• lay bare
  • "bare your breasts"
  • "bare your feelings"
• make public
• lay bare
• To uncover; to reveal.
• simple past of bear

Adjective Satellite

• completely unclothed
  • "bare bodies"
• lacking in amplitude or quantity
  • "a bare livelihood"
• just barely adequate or within a lower limit
  • "a bare majority"
• apart from anything else; without additions or modifications
  • "only the bare facts"
• lacking a surface finish such as paint
  • "bare wood"
• providing no shelter or sustenance
  • "bare rocky hills"
• having everything extraneous removed including contents
  • "the bare walls"
  • "the cupboard was bare"
• lacking embellishment or ornamentation

Adjective

• Uncovered, naked, or without addition.
• not having a protective covering
  • "a bare blade"
• lacking its natural or customary covering
  • "a bare hill"
  • "bare feet"

Adj

• Minimal; that is or are just sufficient.
• Naked, uncovered.
• Having no supplies.
• Having no decoration.
• Having had what usually covers (something) removed.
• A lot or lots of.
• With head uncovered; bareheaded.
• Without anything to cover up or conceal one's thoughts or actions; open to view; exposed.
• Mere; without embellishment.
• Threadbare, very worn.
• Not insured.

Adv

• Barely.
• Very; significantly.
• Without a condom.

Noun

• The surface, the (bare) skin.
• Surface; body; substance.
• That part of a roofing slate, shingle, tile, or metal plate, which is exposed to the weather.

Examples

• a bare majority
• a room bare of furniture
• bare essentials; bare necessities
• I will bare my secret weapon: a Z and a Q in my rack.
• It's taking bare time.
• She bared her teeth at him.
• That pissed me off bare.
• That's bare stupid.
• The board was bare, offering few places to build upon.
• The cupboard was bare.
• The tabloid newspaper promised to bare all.
• The trees were left bare after the swarm of locusts devoured all the leaves.
• The walls of this room are bare — why not hang some paintings on them?

Synonyms

air, au naturel, barren, bleak, denudate, denude, desolate, marginal, mere, naked, nude, plain, publicise, publicize, scanty, simple, spare, stark, strip, stripped, unembellished, unfinished, unornamented, unsheathed, alone, apparent, austere, bare, certain, chaste, clear, despoiled, displayed, distinct, empty, evident, expose, exposed, indubitable, inornate, lay bare, manifest, minimal, modest, noninsured, notorious, obvious, only, quiet, reveal, severe, shabby, show, spartan, unadorned, unconcealed, uncover, uncovered, undecked, undecorated, undressed, unextravagant, unfurnished, ungarnished, uninsured, unstocked, unsupplied, untrimmed, unvarnished, very, visible, worn-out

Antonyms

covered, sheathed, adorned, ample, apparent, concealed, cover, cover up, covered up, decorated, dressed, full, furnished, hide, obscured, open, ornate, overt, plentiful, stocked, sufficient, supplied, supply, unadorned, unexposed, visible, well-stocked

Anagrams of bare