1. Adjective
Without clothes or covering; stripped of the usual covering; naked; as, his body is bare; the trees are bare.
2. Adjective
With head uncovered; bareheaded.
3. Adjective
Without anything to cover up or conceal one's thoughts or actions; open to view; exposed.
4. Adjective
Plain; simple; unadorned; without polish; bald; meager.
5. Adjective
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. Adjective
Threadbare; much worn.
7. Adjective
Mere; alone; unaccompanied by anything else; as, a bare majority.
8. Noun
Surface; body; substance.
9. Noun
That part of a roofing slate, shingle, tile, or metal plate, which is exposed to the weather.
10. Adjective
To strip off the covering of; to make bare; as, to bare the breast.
11. Unclassified
Bore; the old preterit of Bear, v.
12. Unclassified
of Bear
13. Adjective
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"
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