Definitions of BARE [ɛər]

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Definition of 'BARE'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (adj.) bare
without covering or clothing; naked; nude:
bare legs.

2.  bare
without the usual furnishings, contents, etc.:
bare walls.

3.  bare
mere:
a bare three miles.

4.  bare
unadorned; bald; plain:
the bare facts.

5.  bare
constituting a minimum; scarcely sufficient:
the bare necessities of life.

6.  bare
Obs. bareheaded.

7. (v.t.) bare
to reveal or divulge:
to bare damaging new facts.

Etymology: (bef. 900; ME; OE bær, c. OFris ber, OS, OHG bar, ON berr)

Definition of 'BARE'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (adj) bare, au naturel(p), naked, nude
completely unclothed
"bare bodies"; "naked from the waist up"; "a nude model"

2. (adj) bare(a), scanty, spare
lacking in amplitude or quantity
"a bare livelihood"; "a scanty harvest"; "a spare diet"

3. (adj) unsheathed, bare
not having a protective covering
"unsheathed cables"; "a bare blade"

4. (adj) bare
lacking its natural or customary covering
"a bare hill"; "bare feet"

5. (adj) bare(a), marginal
just barely adequate or within a lower limit
"a bare majority"; "a marginal victory"

6. (adj) bare(a), mere(a), simple(a)
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"

7. (adj) bare, unfinished
lacking a surface finish such as paint
"bare wood"; "unfinished furniture"

8. (adj) bare, barren, bleak, desolate, stark
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"

9. (adj) bare, stripped
having everything extraneous removed including contents
"the bare walls"; "the cupboard was bare"

10. (verb) plain, bare, spare, unembellished, unornamented
lacking embellishment or ornamentation
"a plain hair style"; "unembellished white walls"; "functional architecture featuring stark unornamented concrete"

11. (verb) bare
lay bare
"bare your breasts"; "bare your feelings"

12. (verb) publicize, publicise, air, bare
make public
"She aired her opinions on welfare"

13. (verb) denude, bare, denudate, strip
lay bare
"denude a forest"

Definition of 'BARE'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (adjective) bare
not covered in clothes
bare legs/arms/head

2.  bare
with nothing on it or in it
The room was bare.

3.  bare
the most basic or simple
bare necessities

4.  bare
with your bare hands
only using your hands

Definition of 'BARE'

Webster Dictionary

1. (adj) BARE
without clothes or covering; stripped of the usual covering; naked; as, his body is bare; the trees are bare

2. (adj) BARE
with head uncovered; bareheaded

3. (adj) BARE
without anything to cover up or conceal one's thoughts or actions; open to view; exposed

4. (adj) BARE
plain; simple; unadorned; without polish; bald; meager

5. (adj) BARE
destitute; indigent; empty; unfurnished or scantily furnished; -- used with of (rarely with in) before the thing wanting or taken away; as, a room bare of furniture

6. (adj) BARE
threadbare; much worn

7. (adj) BARE
mere; alone; unaccompanied by anything else; as, a bare majority

8. (adj) BARE
to strip off the covering of; to make bare; as, to bare the breast

9. (noun) BARE
surface; body; substance

10. (noun) BARE
that part of a roofing slate, shingle, tile, or metal plate, which is exposed to the weather

11. BARE
bore; the old preterit of Bear, v

12. BARE
of Bear

Translation of 'BARE'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: uncovered or naked bare skin; bare floors.
Afrikaans: kaal	Arabic: عارٍ ، بِدون ألبِسه	Bulgarian: гол
Brazilian: nu	Czech: nahý, holý	German: bloß
Danish: nøgen; bar	Greek: γυμνός, ακάλυπτος	Spanish: desnudo, descubierto
Estonian: paljas	Farsi: لخت؛ برهنه	Finnish: paljas
French: nu	Hebrew: חָשׂוּף, עָרוֹם	Hindi: अनावृत
Croatian: gol	Hungarian: meztelen	Indonesian: telanjang
Icelandic: ber, nakinn	Italian: nudo	Japanese: 裸の
Korean: 나체의	Lithuanian: nuogas, plikas	Latvian: kails; neapsegts
Malay: terdedah	Dutch: bloot	Norwegian: bar, naken
Polish: goły, nagi	Persian: لخت؛ برهنه	Pashto: لوڅ، لغړ، بربنډ، څرګند، ا
Portuguese: nu	Romanian: gol, neacoperit	Russian: голый
Slovak: nahý, holý	Slovenian: gol	Serbian: go
Swedish: bar, naken, kal	Thai: เปลือยเปล่า	Turkish: çıplak
Taiwanese: 無遮蔽的，赤裸的	Ukrainian: оголений; голий	Urdu: ننگا ، برہنہ
Vietnamese: trần truồng	Chinese: 无遮蔽的，赤裸的
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