bareness

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.
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.]

bare′ness n.

bare 2

 (bâr)
v. Archaic
A past tense of bear1.
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Bareness

 
  1. Bare as the back of my hand —John Ray’s Proverbs
  2. As naked as the last leftover clap in a theatre —Joe Coomer
  3. Bare as a birch at Christmas —Sir Walter Scott

    Scott used this in both The Fortunes of Nigel and Quentin Durward.

  4. Bare as a bird’s tail —Edward Ward
  5. Bare as a newly shorn sheep —John Lydgate

    The simile has been modernized from “Bare as a sheep that is but newe shorn.”

  6. (There she was, on the bed beside me, as) bare-assed as Eve in Eden —George Garrett
  7. Bare as shame —Algernon Charles Swinburne
  8. Bare as winter trees —William Wordsworth
  9. Bare like a carcass picked by crows —Jonathan Swift
  10. More desolate than the wilderness —The Holy Bible/Ezekiel
  11. Naked as an egg —F. van Wyck Mason
  12. Naked as a peach pit —Helen Dudar, Wall Street Journal, November 26, 1986

    Even writers not given to using similes often use them as attention-grabbers at the beginning of an article, as Helen Dudar did to introduce her subject, novelist Paget Powell.

  13. Naked as a stone —Angela Carter
  14. Naked as a table cloth —Frank O’Hara
  15. Naked as a weather report —Robert Traver
  16. Naked as rain —Wallace Stevens
  17. Nude as fruit on limb —George Garrett
  18. (Voice wearing) raw as a rubbed heel —Sharon Sheehe Stark
  19. (I’m simply against) showing girls as if they were pork chops —Germaine Greer on Playmate features in Playboy Magazine, January, 1972
  20. Standing naked as a dead man’s shadow —A. D. Winans
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.bareness - a bleak and desolate atmospherebareness - 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)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 ornamentationbareness - 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
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bareness

noun
The state of being without clothes:
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Translations
عُرْي
holostnahota
nøgenhed
Nacktheit
abandonnudité
csupaszság
nudit...
nakenhet
çıplaklık
赤裸

bareness

[ˈbɛənɪs] N
1. (= nakedness) → desnudez f
2. (= emptiness) [of room] → lo vacío; [of wall, tree] → desnudez f; [of landscape] → desnudez f, lo pelado
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

bareness

nNacktheit f; (of person also)Blöße f; (of trees, countryside)Kahlheit f; (of room, garden)Leere f; (of style)Nüchternheit f
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

bareness

[ˈbɛənɪs] nnudità
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

bare

(beə) adjective
1. uncovered or naked. bare skin; bare floors.
2. empty. bare shelves.
3. of trees etc, without leaves.
4. worn thin. The carpet is a bit bare.
5. basic; essential. the bare necessities of life.
verb
to uncover. The dog bared its teeth in anger.
ˈbarely adverb
scarcely or only just. We have barely enough food.
ˈbareness noun
ˈbareback adverb, adjective
without a saddle. I enjoy riding bareback.
ˈbarefaced adjective
openly impudent. a barefaced lie.
ˈbarefoot(ed) adjective, adverb
not wearing shoes or socks etc. The children go barefoot on the beach.
ˌbareˈheaded adjective, adverb
not wearing a hat etc.
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