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bareness

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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.

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

bareness n.

bare 2  (bâr)
v. Archaic
A past tense of bear1.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.bareness - a bleak and desolate atmosphere; "the nakedness of the landscape"
gloominess, 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"
plainness - the appearance of being plain and unpretentious
Translations
bareness [ˈbɛənɪs] N
1. (= nakedness) → desnudez f
2. (= emptiness) [of room] → lo vacío; [of wall, tree] → desnudez f; [of landscape] → desnudez f, lo pelado
bareness
nNacktheit f; (of person also)Blöße f; (of trees, countryside)Kahlheit f; (of room, garden)Leere f; (of style)Nüchternheit f
bareness [ˈbɛənɪs] nnudità
bareness [ˈbɛənɪs] nnudità


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There was an orchard behind it, and a nicely kept lawn before it, but, somehow, there was a certain bareness about it.
Notre-Dame de Paris has not, like the Abbey of Tournus, the grave and massive frame, the large and round vault, the glacial bareness, the majestic simplicity of the edifices which have the rounded arch for their progenitor.
The bareness of the squalid room made the pain of it more poignant.
 
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