Dictionary entry details
• BARE (adjective)
Meaning:
Completely unclothed
Synonyms:
nude; naked; bare; au naturel
Context examples:
bare bodies / naked from the waist up / a nude model
Similar:
unclothed (not wearing clothing)
Meaning:
Lacking in amplitude or quantity
Synonyms:
scanty; bare; spare
Context examples:
a bare livelihood / a scanty harvest / a spare diet
Similar:
meager; meagerly; meagre; scrimpy; stingy (deficient in amount or quality or extent)
Meaning:
Not having a protective covering
Synonyms:
unsheathed; bare
Context examples:
unsheathed cables / a bare blade
Meaning:
Lacking its natural or customary covering
Context examples:
a bare hill / bare feet
Similar:
bald; denudate; denuded (without the natural or usual covering)
naked (lacking any cover)
undraped (lacking drapery or draperies)
unroofed (having no roof)
Antonym:
covered (overlaid or spread or topped with or enclosed within something; sometimes used as a combining form)
Meaning:
Just barely adequate or within a lower limit
Synonyms:
marginal; bare
Context examples:
a bare majority / a marginal victory
Similar:
narrow (very limited in degree)
Meaning:
Apart from anything else; without additions or modifications
Synonyms:
mere; simple; bare
Context examples:
only the bare facts / shocked by the mere idea / the simple passage of time was enough / the simple truth
Similar:
plain (not elaborate or elaborated; simple)
Meaning:
Lacking a surface finish such as paint
Synonyms:
unfinished; bare
Context examples:
bare wood / unfinished furniture
Similar:
unpainted (not having a coat of paint or badly in need of a fresh coat)
Meaning:
Providing no shelter or sustenance
Synonyms:
barren; desolate; bleak; stark; bare
Context examples:
bare rocky hills / barren lands / the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes / the desolate surface of the moon / a stark landscape
Similar:
inhospitable (unfavorable to life or growth)
Meaning:
Having everything extraneous removed including contents
Synonyms:
stripped; bare
Context examples:
the bare walls / the cupboard was bare
Similar:
empty (holding or containing nothing)
Meaning:
Lacking embellishment or ornamentation
Synonyms:
unornamented; unembellished; plain; spare; bare
Context examples:
a plain hair style / unembellished white walls / functional architecture featuring stark unornamented concrete
Similar:
unadorned; undecorated (not decorated with something to increase its beauty or distinction)
• BARE (verb)
Meaning:
Lay bare
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Context examples:
bare your breasts / bare your feelings
Hypernyms (to "bare" is one way to...):
expose; uncover (remove all or part of one's clothes to show one's body)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Meaning:
Make public
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
publicize; publicise; bare; air
Context example:
She aired her opinions on welfare
Hypernyms (to "bare" is one way to...):
tell (let something be known)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "bare"):
bulletin (make public by bulletin)
bring out; issue; publish; put out; release (prepare and issue for public distribution or sale)
broadcast; circularise; circularize; circulate; diffuse; disperse; disseminate; distribute; pass around; propagate; spread (cause to become widely known)
air; beam; broadcast; send; transmit (broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
Meaning:
Lay bare
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
denudate; denude; bare; strip
Context example:
denude a forest
Hypernyms (to "bare" is one way to...):
clear (remove)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "bare"):
defoliate (strip the leaves or branches from)
burn off (clear land of its vegetation by burning it off)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Sentence example:
They bare the trees
