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barenessenUK
bare 1 B0074700 (bâr)adj. bar·er, bar·est 1. Lacking the usual or appropriate covering or clothing; naked: a bare arm.2. Exposed to view; undisguised: bare fangs.3. Lacking the usual furnishings, equipment, or decoration: bare walls.4. Having no addition, adornment, or qualification: the bare facts.5. Just sufficient; mere: the bare necessities.6. Obsolete Bareheaded.tr.v. bared, bar·ing, bares 1. To make bare; uncover or reveal: bared their heads; baring secrets.2. To expose: The dog bared its teeth.
[Middle English bar, from Old English bær; see bhoso- in Indo-European roots.]
bare′ness n.
bare 2 B0074700 (bâr)v. Archaic A past tense of bear1.Bareness - Bare as the back of my hand —John Ray’s Proverbs
- As naked as the last leftover clap in a theatre —Joe Coomer
- Bare as a birch at Christmas —Sir Walter Scott
Scott used this in both The Fortunes of Nigel and Quentin Durward. - Bare as a bird’s tail —Edward Ward
- Bare as a newly shorn sheep —John Lydgate
The simile has been modernized from “Bare as a sheep that is but newe shorn.” - (There she was, on the bed beside me, as) bare-assed as Eve in Eden —George Garrett
- Bare as shame —Algernon Charles Swinburne
- Bare as winter trees —William Wordsworth
- Bare like a carcass picked by crows —Jonathan Swift
- More desolate than the wilderness —The Holy Bible/Ezekiel
- Naked as an egg —F. van Wyck Mason
- Naked as a peach pit —Helen Dudar, Wall Street Journal, November 26, 1986
Even writers not given to using similes often use them as attention-grabbers at the beginning of an article, as Helen Dudar did to introduce her subject, novelist Paget Powell. - Naked as a stone —Angela Carter
- Naked as a table cloth —Frank O’Hara
- Naked as a weather report —Robert Traver
- Naked as rain —Wallace Stevens
- Nude as fruit on limb —George Garrett
- (Voice wearing) raw as a rubbed heel —Sharon Sheehe Stark
- (I’m simply against) showing girls as if they were pork chops —Germaine Greer on Playmate features in Playboy Magazine, January, 1972
- Standing naked as a dead man’s shadow —A. D. Winans
Thesaurus| Noun | 1. |  bareness - a bleak and desolate atmosphere; "the nakedness of the landscape"bleakness, desolation, nakednessgloominess, glumness, gloom - an atmosphere of depression and melancholy; "gloom pervaded the office" | | 2. |  bareness - the state of being unclothed and exposed (especially of a part of the body)nakedness, nudeness, nudity - the state of being without clothing or covering of any kind | | 3. |  bareness - an extreme lack of furnishings or ornamentation; "I was struck by the starkness of my father's room"starknessplainness - the appearance of being plain and unpretentious |
barenessnounThe state of being without clothes:nakedness, nudeness, nudity, undress.Translationsbare (beə) adjective1. uncovered or naked. bare skin; bare floors. 無遮蔽的，赤裸的 无遮蔽的，赤裸的 2. empty. bare shelves. 空的 空的3. of trees etc, without leaves. 光禿的 光秃的4. worn thin. The carpet is a bit bare. 磨薄的，磨損的 磨薄的，磨损的 5. basic; essential. the bare necessities of life. 基本的 基本的 verb to uncover. The dog bared its teeth in anger. 裸露 露出ˈbarely adverb scarcely or only just. We have barely enough food. 勉強 勉强ˈbareness noun 赤裸 赤裸ˈbareback adverb, adjective without a saddle. I enjoy riding bareback. 無馬鞍地(的) 无马鞍地（的） ˈbarefaced adjective openly impudent. a barefaced lie. 公然的，厚顏無恥的 公然的，无耻的 ˈbarefoot(ed) adjective, adverb not wearing shoes or socks etc. The children go barefoot on the beach. 赤腳的 赤脚的ˌbareˈheaded adjective, adverb not wearing a hat etc. 沒戴帽的(地) 不戴帽子的（地） EncyclopediaSeebarebarenessenUK
Synonyms for barenessnoun the state of being without clothesSynonyms- nakedness
- nudeness
- nudity
- undress
Synonyms for barenessnoun a bleak and desolate atmosphereSynonyms- bleakness
- desolation
- nakedness
Related Wordsnoun the state of being unclothed and exposed (especially of a part of the body)Related Wordsnoun an extreme lack of furnishings or ornamentationSynonymsRelated Words |