without 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.
verb (used with object),bared,bar·ing.
to open to view; reveal or divulge: to bare one's arms; to bare damaging new facts.
Origin of bare
1
before 900; Middle English; Old English bær; cognate with Old Frisian ber,Dutch baar,Old Saxon, Old High German, German bar,Old Norse berr,Lithuanian bãsas barefoot, Russian bos; akin to Armenian bok naked
SYNONYMS FOR bare
1 undressed.
2 plain, stark, empty, barren.
8 uncover, expose.
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ANTONYMS FOR bare
1 covered.
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synonym study for bare
2. Bare,stark,barren share the sense of lack or absence of something that might be expected. Bare, the least powerful in connotation of the three, means lack of expected or usual coverings, furnishings, or embellishments: bare floor, feet, head.Stark implies extreme severity or desolation and resultant bleakness or dreariness: a stark landscape; a stark, emotionless countenance.Barren carries a strong sense of sterility and oppressive dullness: barren fields; a barren relationship.6. See mere1.
If you can’t touch the ground with your bare hand or step on it with bare feet, it’ll hurt your pet, Perry and Mynchenberg both say.
The right way to walk your dog|John Kennedy|August 26, 2020|Popular Science
Covid-19 is intensifying technonationalist tendencies in part by laying bare the differences between countries that are handling the pandemic well and those that aren’t.
A world divided into “cans” and “cannots”|Katie McLean|August 19, 2020|MIT Technology Review
It found that neck gaiters made out of a polyester spandex material allowed more droplets of liquid to pass through when the wearer was speaking than any other type of face covering—and even bare lips.
Don’t give up on your buff just yet|Katherine Ellen Foley|August 12, 2020|Quartz
In the future, you can see a lot of students going straight for the bare essentials.
The (Deferred) Class of 2020|Sandya Kola|August 9, 2020|Ozy
Some good preparation for bare-knuckle New York City politics.
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“Bare [sic] with me on vlogmas,” she told her fans in a Tweet.
The American Academy of Pediatrics advocates for infants to be put to sleep in a bare crib to prevent SIDS.
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Maybe, just maybe he'd be able to get the message across if he stripped it down to its bare bones.
Are Politicians Too Dumb to Understand the Lyrics to ‘Born in the USA’?|Parker Molloy|November 6, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The bare bones of an already-anemic effort to fight the epidemic in West Africa that is threatening to destroy the entire region.
Doctors Without Borders Hits Ebola Breaking Point|Abby Haglage, Kent Sepkowitz|October 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Of course the scenes we worried about the most—when Joan was the most vulnerable and bare—were not a concern for her.
The Directors of Joan Rivers Documentary 'A Piece of Work' Remember Its Star|Kevin Fallon|September 8, 2014|DAILY BEAST
He did not conceal anything; he merely outlined without filling in the bare suggestion.
Money Magic|Hamlin Garland
The serape was put aside languidly and a bare brown arm appeared.
The Mission of Janice Day|Helen Beecher Long
Two low rocky ranges enter its borders from the south and run northward in a bare and unshaded mass toward the plain country.
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