Bare

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Lacking the usual or appropriate covering or clothing; naked: a bare arm.
  • adj. Exposed to view; undisguised: bare fangs.
  • adj. Lacking the usual furnishings, equipment, or decoration: bare walls.
  • adj. Having no addition, adornment, or qualification: the bare facts. See Synonyms at empty.
  • adj. Just sufficient; mere: the bare necessities.
  • adj. Obsolete Bareheaded.
  • v. To make bare; uncover or reveal: bared their heads; baring secrets.
  • v. To expose: The dog bared its teeth.
  • v. Archaic A past tense of bear1.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Minimal; that is or are just sufficient.
  • adj. Naked, uncovered.
  • adj. Having no supplies.
  • adj. Having no decoration.
  • adj. Having had what usually covers (something) removed.
  • adj. A lot or lots of.
  • ad. Very; significantly.
  • ad. Barely.
  • ad. Without a condom
  • n. the surface, the (bare) skin
  • v. To uncover; to reveal.
  • v. Simple past of bear.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Without clothes or covering; stripped of the usual covering; naked.
  • adj. With head uncovered; bareheaded.
  • adj. Without anything to cover up or conceal one's thoughts or actions; open to view; exposed.
  • adj. Plain; simple; unadorned; without polish; bald; meager.
  • adj. Destitute; indigent; empty; unfurnished or scantily furnished; -- used with of (rarely with in) before the thing wanting or taken away.
  • adj. Threadbare; much worn.
  • adj. Mere; alone; unaccompanied by anything else.
  • n. Surface; body; substance.
  • n. That part of a roofing slate, shingle, tile, or metal plate, which is exposed to the weather.
  • v. To strip off the covering of; to make bare.
  • Bore; the old preterit of bear, v.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Naked; without covering: as, bare arms; the trees are bare.
  • With the head uncovered.
  • Open to view; unconcealed; undisguised.
  • Lacking in appropriate covering or equipment; unfurnished: as, bare walls.
  • Plain; simple; unadorned; without polish.
  • Threadless; napless.
  • Poor; destitute; indigent; empty; unfurnished; unprovided with what is necessary or comfortable: absolutely or with of.
  • Empty; valueless; paltry; worthless.
  • Mere; scarcely or just sufficient: as, the bare necessaries of life; a bare subsistence.
  • Unaccompanied; without addition; simple.
  • Unadorned; without literary or artistic effect; bald; meager.
  • In beer-making, not completely covered by the bubbles formed in fermentation: said of the surface of beer.
  • Raw; excoriated.
  • Lean; spare.
  • The uncovered or unhidden surface; the body; the substance.
  • To make bare; uncover; divest of covering: as, to bare one's head or one's breast.
  • To disclose; make manifest; lay bare: as, to bare the secrets of the grave.
  • Old preterit of bear.
  • n. That part of a clapboard, roof-slate, or the like, which is exposed to the weather when the roof is complete, as distinguished from the lap.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. completely unclothed
  • adj. lacking embellishment or ornamentation
  • v. lay bare
  • adj. lacking in amplitude or quantity
  • adj. apart from anything else; without additions or modifications
  • v. make public
  • adj. lacking a surface finish such as paint
  • adj. not having a protective covering
  • adj. just barely adequate or within a lower limit
  • adj. providing no shelter or sustenance
  • v. lay bare
  • adj. having everything extraneous removed including contents
  • adj. lacking its natural or customary covering
  • Equivalent
    unclothed    unadorned    undecorated    stingy    meagre    scrimpy    meagerly    meager    plain    unpainted   
    Verb Form
    bared    barely    bareness    bares    baring   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    expose    uncover   
    Cross Reference
    stop    prevent    mere    unadorned    uncovered    narrow    meager    expose    disclose    barrier   
    Variant
    bear   
    Form
    bared    Baring   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    naked    bareheaded    exposed    plain    simple    unadorned    bald    meager    destitute    indigent   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Adair    Aer    Altair    Astaire    Ayre    Baer    Bear    Blair    Cher    Clair   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    naked    narrow    smooth    barren    wooden