Definition of bare

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bare - 14 definitions

- verb
1. bare -- lay bare; "bare your breasts"; "bare your feelings"
Source:WordNet 3.0
 
2. publicize -- make public; "She aired her opinions on welfare"
synonyms: publicize, publicise, air
Source:WordNet 3.0
 
3. denude -- lay bare; "denude a forest"
synonyms: denude, denudate, strip
Source:WordNet 3.0
 
4. bare, bared -- to expose
synonyms: bared, barer, bares, barest, baring, unbare
Source:OWL 2 Web Ontology Language
 
- adjective
5. bare -- completely unclothed; "bare bodies"; "naked from the waist up"; "a nude model"
synonyms: au naturel, naked, nude
Source:WordNet 3.0
 
6. bare -- lacking in amplitude or quantity; "a bare livelihood"; "a scanty harvest"; "a spare diet"
synonyms: scanty, spare
Source:WordNet 3.0
 
7. unsheathed -- not having a protective covering; "unsheathed cables"; "a bare blade"
synonyms: unsheathed
antonyms: sheathed -- enclosed in a protective covering; sometimes used in combination; "his sheathed sword"; "the cat's sheathed claws"; "a ship's bottom sheathed in copper"; "copper-sheathed"
Source:WordNet 3.0
 
8. bare -- lacking its natural or customary covering; "a bare hill"; "bare feet"
antonyms: covered -- overlaid or spread or topped with or enclosed within something; sometimes used as a combining form; "women with covered faces"; "covered wagons"; "a covered balcony"
Source:WordNet 3.0
 
9. bare -- just barely adequate or within a lower limit; "a bare majority"; "a marginal victory"
synonyms: marginal
Source:WordNet 3.0
 
10. bare -- 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"
synonyms: mere, simple
Source:WordNet 3.0
 
11. bare -- lacking a surface finish such as paint; "bare wood"; "unfinished furniture"
synonyms: unfinished
Source:WordNet 3.0
 
12. bare -- providing no shelter or sustenance; "bare rocky hills"; "barren lands"; "the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes"; "the desolate surface of the moon"; "a stark landscape"
synonyms: barren, bleak, desolate, stark
Source:WordNet 3.0
 
13. bare -- having everything extraneous removed including contents; "the bare walls"; "the cupboard was bare"
synonyms: stripped
Source:WordNet 3.0
 
14. plain -- lacking embellishment or ornamentation; "a plain hair style"; "unembellished white walls"; "functional architecture featuring stark unornamented concrete"
synonyms: plain, spare, unembellished, unornamented
Source:WordNet 3.0
 
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Antonyms
sheathed -- enclosed in a protective covering; sometimes used in combination; "his sheathed sword"; "the cat's sheathed claws"; "a ship's bottom sheathed in copper"; "copper-sheathed"
covered -- overlaid or spread or topped with or enclosed within something; sometimes used as a combining form; "women with covered faces"; "covered wagons"; "a covered balcony"

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