bare

bare ¹  (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. See Synonyms at empty.

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.

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[Middle English bar, from Old English bær; see bhoso- in Indo-European roots.]

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bareness n.

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bare

Adjective

1. unclothed: used esp. of a part of the body

2. without the natural, conventional, or usual covering: bare trees

3. lacking appropriate furnishings, etc.: a bare room

4. simple: the bare facts

5. just sufficient: the bare minimum

Verb

[baring, bared]

to uncover [Old English bær]

bareness n

Thesaurus

Verb	1.	bare - lay bare; "bare your breasts"; "bare your feelings" uncover, expose - remove all or part of one's clothes to show one's body; "uncover your belly"; "The man exposed himself in the subway"
	2.	bare - make public; "She aired her opinions on welfare" publicize, publicise, air tell - let something be known; "Tell them that you will be late" hype - publicize in an exaggerated and often misleading manner bulletin - make public by bulletin issue, publish, bring out, release, put out - prepare and issue for public distribution or sale; "publish a magazine or newspaper" disseminate, pass around, circulate, diffuse, broadcast, circularise, circularize, spread, disperse, propagate, distribute - cause to become widely known; "spread information"; "circulate a rumor"; "broadcast the news" broadcast, air, transmit, beam, send - broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television; "We cannot air this X-rated song"
	3.	bare - lay bare; "denude a forest" denudate, denude, strip clear - remove; "clear the leaves from the lawn"; "Clear snow from the road" defoliate - strip the leaves or branches from; "defoliate the trees with pesticides" burn off - clear land of its vegetation by burning it off
Adj.	1.	bare - completely unclothed; "bare bodies"; "naked from the waist up"; "a nude model" au naturel, naked, nude unclothed - not wearing clothing
	2.	bare - lacking in amplitude or quantity; "a bare livelihood"; "a scanty harvest"; "a spare diet" scanty, spare meager, meagerly, meagre, scrimpy, stingy - deficient in amount or quality or extent; "meager resources"; "meager fare"
	3.	bare - not having a protective covering; "unsheathed cables"; "a bare blade" unsheathed
	4.	bare - lacking its natural or customary covering; "a bare hill"; "bare feet" covered - overlaid or spread or topped with or enclosed within something; sometimes used as a combining form; "women with covered faces"; "covered wagons"; "a covered balcony"
	5.	bare - just barely adequate or within a lower limit; "a bare majority"; "a marginal victory" marginal narrow - very limited in degree; "won by a narrow margin"; "a narrow escape"
	6.	bare - 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" mere, simple plain - not elaborate or elaborated; simple; "plain food"; "stuck to the plain facts"; "a plain blue suit"; "a plain rectangular brick building"
	7.	bare - lacking a surface finish such as paint; "bare wood"; "unfinished furniture" unfinished unpainted - not having a coat of paint or badly in need of a fresh coat; "an unpainted house"; "unpainted furniture"
	8.	bare - 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" barren, desolate, bleak, stark inhospitable - unfavorable to life or growth; "the barren inhospitable desert"; "inhospitable mountain areas"
	9.	bare - having everything extraneous removed including contents; "the bare walls"; "the cupboard was bare" stripped empty - holding or containing nothing; "an empty glass"; "an empty room"; "full of empty seats"; "empty hours"
	10.	bare - lacking embellishment or ornamentation; "a plain hair style"; "unembellished white walls"; "functional architecture featuring stark unornamented concrete" unembellished, unornamented, plain, spare unadorned, undecorated - not decorated with something to increase its beauty or distinction

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bare

adjective 1. naked, nude, stripped, exposed, uncovered, shorn, undressed, divested, denuded, in the raw (informal) disrobed, unclothed, buck naked (slang) unclad, scuddy (slang) without a stitch on (informal) in the bare scud (slang) naked as the day you were born (informal) << OPPOSITE dressed

adjective 2. simple, basic, severe, spare, stark, austere, spartan, unadorned, unfussy, unvarnished, unembellished, unornamented, unpatterned << OPPOSITE adorned

adjective 3. empty, wanting, mean, lacking, deserted, vacant, void, scarce, barren, uninhabited, unoccupied, scanty, unfurnished << OPPOSITE full

adjective 4. plain, hard, simple, cold, basic, essential, obvious, sheer, patent, evident, stark, manifest, bald, literal, overt, unembellished

Translations

bare [bɛəʳ] adj → desnudo; [head] → descubierto

vt → desnudar;

to bare one's teeth → enseñar los dientes

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bare [bɛəʳ] adj → nu(e)

vt → mettre à nu, dénuder [+ teeth]; montrer;

the bare essentials → le strict nécessaire

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bare [bɛəʳ] adj → nackt;

(trees, countryside) → kahl;

(minimum) → absolut

vt → entblößen;

(teeth) → blecken;

the bare essentials, the bare necessities → das Allernotwendigste;

to bare one's soul → sein Innerstes entblößen

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bare [bɛəʳ] adj → nudo/a

vt → scoprire, denudare [+ teeth]; mostrare;

the bare essentials → lo stretto necessario