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bare
1[bair]
adjective
without covering or clothing; naked; nude.
bare legs.
Synonyms: undressedwithout 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.
bare
2[bair]
verb
simple past tense of bear.
bare
1/ bɛə /
adjective
unclothed; exposed: used esp of a part of the body
without the natural, conventional, or usual covering or clothing
a bare tree
lacking appropriate furnishings, etc
a bare room
unembellished; simple
the bare facts
(prenomial) just sufficient; mere
he earned the bare minimum
without a weapon or tool
verb
(tr) to make bare; uncover; reveal
bare
2/ bɛə /
verb
archaic, a past tense of bear 1
Other Word Forms
- barish adjective
- bareness noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of bare1
Word History and Origins
Origin of bare1
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
Instead of the typical rock-star tale that relives the glory days and gives short shrift to the rest, the former Black Sabbath frontman chose to lay bare his recent medical struggles in grisly detail.
Still, he has cut back on eating out and buying new clothes, keeping spending to the bare minimum.
USC left Ann Arbor, Mich., last season battered and bruised, its narrow September loss to Michigan having laid bare one of the program’s most pressing concerns upon joining the Big Ten.
Complaints on Russian social media about cutbacks to bus routes and bare store shelves, while unverified, are becoming more prevalent.
More broadly, the furor in Azerbaijan over the crash laid bare Russia’s diminished influence in swaths of its former empire and beyond in the wake of its war in Ukraine.
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When To Use
Bare is UK slang for very or lots of.
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