bare meaning and definition

BARE verb

Definition of bare (verb)

1. lay bare
   • "bare your breasts"; "bare your feelings"
2. make public
   • "She aired her opinions on welfare"
   • synonyms: air, publicise, publicize
3. lay bare
   • "denude a forest"
   • synonyms: denudate, denude, strip

BARE adjective

Definition of bare (adjective)

1. completely unclothed
   • "bare bodies"; "naked from the waist up"; "a nude model"
   • synonyms: au naturel, naked, nude
2. lacking in amplitude or quantity
   • "a bare livelihood"; "a scanty harvest"; "a spare diet"
   • synonyms: scanty, spare
3. not having a protective covering
   • "unsheathed cables"; "a bare blade"
   • synonyms: unsheathed
   • antonym: sheathed
4. lacking its natural or customary covering
   • "a bare hill"; "bare feet"
   • antonym: covered
5. just barely adequate or within a lower limit
   • "a bare majority"; "a marginal victory"
   • synonyms: marginal
6. apart from anything else; without additions or modifications
   • "only the bare facts"; "shocked by the mere idea"; "the simple passage of time was enough"; "the simple truth"
   • synonyms: mere, simple
7. lacking a surface finish such as paint
   • "bare wood"; "unfinished furniture"
   • synonyms: unfinished
8. providing no shelter or sustenance
   • "bare rocky hills"; "barren lands"; "the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes"; "the desolate surface of the moon"; "a stark landscape"
   • synonyms: barren, bleak, desolate, stark
9. having everything extraneous removed including contents
   • "the bare walls"; "the cupboard was bare"
   • synonyms: stripped
10. lacking embellishment or ornamentation
    • "a plain hair style"; "unembellished white walls"; "functional architecture featuring stark unornamented concrete"
    • synonyms: plain, spare, unembellished, unornamented