English dictionary
bare
adjectiveAudio pronunciation
Parts of speech
Definitions
adjective
- lacking embellishment or ornamentation
adjective
- lacking in magnitude or quantity
adjective
- having no clothes on the body
adjective
- having everything extraneous removed including contents
adjective
- providing no shelter or sustenance
adjective
- lacking its natural or customary covering
adjective
- lacking a surface finish such as paint
adjective
- apart from anything else; without additions or modifications
adjective
- not having a protective covering
adjective
- just barely adequate or within a lower limit
verb
- lay bare
verb
- make public
verb
- expose to view
Example sentences
a plain hair style
unembellished white walls
functional architecture featuring stark unornamented concrete
a bare livelihood
a scanty harvest
a spare diet
bare bodies
naked from the waist up
a nude model
the bare walls
the cupboard was bare
bare rocky hills
barren lands
the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes
the desolate surface of the moon
a stark landscape
a bare hill
bare feet
bare wood
unfinished furniture
only the bare facts
shocked by the mere idea
the simple passage of time was enough
the simple truth
unsheathed cables
a bare blade
a bare majority
a marginal victory
denude a forest
She aired her opinions on welfare
bare your breasts
bare your feelings