bare

1 of 3

adjective

ˈber

barer; barest

: lacking a natural, usual, or appropriate covering

b(1)

: lacking clothing

bare feet

(2)

obsolete : bareheaded

: lacking any tool or weapon

opened the box with his bare hands

: open to view : exposed

laying bare their secrets

: unfurnished or scantily supplied

a bare room

: destitute

bare of all safeguards

: having nothing left over or added

the bare necessities of life

: mere

a bare two hours away

: devoid of amplification or adornment

the bare facts

obsolete : worthless

bareness noun

bare

2 of 3

verb

ˈber

bared; baring

transitive verb

: to make or lay (something) bare (see bare entry 1) : uncover

bare

3 of 3

archaic past tense of bear

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Usage Note on Bear

There is considerable confusion between the verbs bear and bare. It may help to remember that the verb bare has only one meaning: "to uncover," as in "bare your shoulders" and "a dog baring its teeth." All other uses of the verb are for bear: "bearing children," "the right to bear arms," "bearing up under the stress/weight," "can't bear the thought," "bear south," "it bears repeating."

There is occasional confusion between bear and bare in adjectival uses (as in "he rubbed his bear arms"), but bear is properly a noun and only used like an adjective in the financial phrase bear market. All other uses refer to the state of being uncovered or naked and should therefore be bare: "bare necessities," "bare essentials," "bare arms," "bare bones," "bare-knuckle," and so on.

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Usage Note on Bear

Example Sentences

Adjective The brittle-looking branches of bare trees reached up from the horizon, and smoke could be seen curling from the chimneys of the sturdy stone houses in the villages we passed through.

David McAninch, Saveur, November 2008 The dining room is warm and comfortable in a quasi-Tuscan-villa style, with bare wood floors, mottled walls, … and a glass room divider etched with images of grapes.

Colman Andrews, Gourmet, March 2007 A scant two hours after his Derby victory, Monarchos was back in his … stall, beneath a bare bulb, eating carrots from a red bucket.

Steve Rushin, Sports Illustrated, 14 May 2001 There was a rug in the front room of the house, but the other floors were bare. Do not let the bare wires touch. He covered her bare arms with his coat. He had a glove on his left hand, but his right hand was bare. The ground was bare where the statue had stood for years. There was only one bare shelf. Her office was pretty bare, having only one desk and one chair. This is the barest room in the house. He only told me the bare facts about what happened. Verb Ed McMahon calls upon the canine coach to help him settle down his aggressive … terrier, which is nice to Ed but bares its teeth at guests.

TV Guide, 29 Oct.-4 Nov. 2007 You could argue that the very act of conducting a lengthy poll by telephone skews the response pool. What sort of person bares her soul to pollsters for upward of an hour—and during the holiday season yet?

Katha Pollitt, Nation, 4/11 Aug. 2003 When Eastman called Death in the Afternoon (Hemingway's nonfiction book about bullfighting) "a literary style of wearing false hair on the chest," Hemingway had no other options than to bare his hirsute midsection and duke it out with his rival author in front of their editor, Max Perkins. The common mythology is that Hemingway beat Eastman to a bloody pulp, but Perkins' account had Eastman gaining the upper hand.

Will Manley, Booklist, 1 Apr. 2001 The better analogy is to bare all on the talk shows in which ordinary people are encouraged to reveal intimate aspects of their private lives.

Richard A. Posner, New Republic, 21 Aug. 2000 He bared his chest to show the scar. finally bared the secret that she had kept to herself for so long See More

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Adjective

Environmental justice took a back seat to maximizing profit while doing the bare minimum.

Essence, 29 Aug. 2022 What some quiet quitters call doing the bare minimum actually means giving full-attention to their work, then having a life outside work hours, says Brian Gray, who works in web development.

Kathryn Dill And Angela Yang, WSJ, 25 Aug. 2022 By the standards of the NFL trade market, Indianapolis gave up the bare minimum in order to get Pryor.

The Indianapolis Star, 22 Aug. 2022 The bare minimum here is 64 GB, but 128 or higher is even better.

Riley Gutiérrez Mcdermid, USA TODAY, 21 Aug. 2022 The pandemic laid bare the gaps and disparities in the U.S. public health system, and often resulted in blowback against local officials trying to slow the coronavirus's spread.

Katheryn Houghton, CNN, 15 Aug. 2022 And, like the Dreametech (in our roundup as well), the M7 wipes rather than actively mops bare floors.

Stewart Wolpin, Popular Mechanics, 12 Aug. 2022 There is one TikTok from the brand Morphit Sea Moss that shows a chiseled man with brown skin and curly hair eating a coconut with his bare hands.

Julissa Jamesstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2022 The assailant reportedly used Ogorchukwu’s own crutch to strike him first, then crushed him with his bare hands until Ogorchukwu suffocated.

Paolo Maurizio Talanti, Vogue, 4 Aug. 2022

Verb

From the start, Persuasion lays bare its conviction that this particular Austen heroine makes almost too much sense for our own moment, with our hyper-ironic personas and gratuitous fits of self-awareness.

K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 16 July 2022 Throughout the United States, the fight for gender equality in laws that allow men, but not women, to bare their chests in public has been raging for decades.

Kim Elsesser, Forbes, 5 May 2022 Just want to leave this here for the ignorant and arrogant people who have chosen to remain uneducated about what this means for we women who bare this burden.

Charmaine Patterson, PEOPLE.com, 27 June 2022 And their journey to find that special someone lays bare their backgrounds, beliefs and preferences.

Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, 21 July 2022 Viewers are met with an intimate gaze by the subjects, who bare their soul for my camera.

Rica Cerbarano, Vogue, 11 July 2022 The pop icon has been known to bare it all on Instagram in the name of body positivity.

Seventeen Editors, Seventeen, 7 June 2022 The movie lays bare a grudge that has become its own self-sustaining engine, unmoored from logic or reason.

Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 May 2022 Some took up a pen to bare their hearts for those who were to come.

Devi Shastri, Journal Sentinel, 21 June 2022 See More

Kids Definition

bare 1 of 2

adjective

ˈber

barer; barest

: having no covering : naked

bare feet

The trees were bare of leaves.

: empty entry 1 sense 1

The cupboard was bare.

: having nothing left over or added : mere

the bare necessities

… Thorton was abreast of him and a bare half-dozen strokes away …

Jack London, The Call of the Wild

: bald sense 2

the bare facts

bare

2 of 2

verb

bared; baring

: uncover sense 2

bare 1 of 2

adjective

as in mere

being this and no more impoverished people who can no longer afford the bare necessities

Synonyms & Similar Words

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mere
very
sheer
simple
only
stark
pure
utter
unadulterated
solitary
unmitigated
total
alone
sole
lone
absolute
outright
unalloyed
unqualified
arrant
singular
out-and-out
solo
all-out
unique

as in simple

free from all additions or embellishment do you want to know the bare truth?

Synonyms & Similar Words

simple
plain
naked
stripped
unadorned
bald
clean
undecorated
unornamented
unembellished
unvarnished
denuded
restrained
quiet
honest
spartan
homely
plain-vanilla
elemental
modest
divested
unsophisticated
stark
bleak
earthy
subdued
natural
minimalist
unpretentious
severe
inconspicuous
forthright
austere
muted
conservative
antiseptic
unobtrusive
au naturel
understated
sober
toned (down)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

fancy
adorned
decorated
ornamented
gaudy
tawdry
glittery
showy
garish
embellished
loud
swanky
glitzy
flashy
ornate
swank
lurid
ostentatious
flamboyant
florid
elaborate
exaggerated
trimmed
bedizened
overwrought
ornate
splashy
overdecorated
extravagant
rococo
baroque
dressed
overdone
embroidered
arrayed
bedecked
garnished
apparelled
appareled
decked-out

as in exposed

lacking a usual or natural covering the ground was bare, without a trace of grass

Synonyms & Similar Words

exposed
naked
stripped
uncovered
peeled
open
denuded
bald
unprotected
shaven
displayed
skinned
revealed
hairless
undressed
unclad
unclothed
disrobed
divested
furless

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

covered
mantled
overgrown
hairy
bearded
overrun
overspread

as in naked

lacking or shed of clothing the toddler liked to run around bare

Synonyms & Similar Words

naked
stripped
nude
unclad
undressed
unclothed
disrobed
stark naked
raw
bottomless
starkers
au naturel
peeled
denuded
topless
mother-naked
in the raw
in the nude
seminude
in the buff
in the altogether
unveiled

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

covered
clad
clothed
suited
dressed
robed
invested
veiled
garbed
attired
apparelled
arrayed
vested
appareled
decent
rigged (out)
caparisoned
decked (out)
tricked (out)

as in devoid

lacking contents that could or should be present the cupboard was bare—not a thing to eat

Synonyms & Similar Words

devoid
empty
barren
clean
stark
blank
vacant
emptied
hollow
void
drained
deserted
toom
vacuous
open
clear
dry
uninhabited
unoccupied
available
abandoned
forsaken
unfilled
free
depleted
unattended
unfurnished
exhausted
vacated

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

full
complete
occupied
provided
replete
furnished
filled
supplied
packed
flush
overflowing
teeming

as in barren

utterly lacking in something needed, wanted, or expected the cupboard was bare of baking supplies

Synonyms & Similar Words

devoid
barren
void
empty
destitute
bereft
bankrupt
insufficient
blank
stark
wanting
partial
vacant
absent
incomplete
short
fragmentary
fragmental
missing
innocent
deficient

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

full
filled
replete
flush
fraught
provided
furnished
rife
supplied
crowded
bursting
saturated
fat
bulging
crammed
brimming
stuffed
thick
packed
loaded
jammed
chockful
teeming
swarming
abounding
chock-full
jam-packed
thronging

bare

2 of 2

verb

as in to reveal

to make known (as information previously kept secret) finally bared the secret that she had kept to herself for so long

Synonyms & Similar Words

reveal
disclose
discover
expose
tell
uncover
share
divulge
spill
announce
unveil
unbosom
unmask
own
bring to light
leak
confide
let the cat out of the bag (about)
let on (about)
uncloak
spill the beans (about)
publish
unclothe
post
advertise
betray
confess
unearth
proclaim
go public (with)
bring out
acknowledge
inform
placard
declare
impart
show up
give away
broadcast
sound
smoke out
undrape
promulgate
concede
admit
debunk
relate
avow
disinter
communicate
publicize
rake up
blab
blaze
talk
squeal

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

hide
conceal
veil
cloak
mask
cover (up)
shroud
camouflage
disguise
enshroud
varnish
obscure
gild
shade
whitewash
gloss (over)
overshadow
darken
cloud
overcast
becloud
eclipse
bedim
befog

Synonym Chooser

Some common synonyms of bare are bald, barren, naked, and nude. While all these words mean "deprived of naturally or conventionally appropriate covering," bare implies the removal of what is additional, superfluous, ornamental, or dispensable.

an apartment with bare walls

The synonyms bald and bare are sometimes interchangeable, but bald implies actual or seeming absence of natural covering and may suggest a conspicuous bareness.

a bald mountain peak

The words barren and bare can be used in similar contexts, but barren often suggests aridity or impoverishment or sterility.

barren plains

While in some cases nearly identical to bare, naked suggests absence of protective or ornamental covering but may imply a state of nature, of destitution, or of defenselessness.

poor half-naked children

While the synonyms nude and bare are close in meaning, nude applies especially to the unclothed human figure.

a nude model posing for art students

单词	bare
释义	bare 1 of 3 adjective ˈber barer; barest 1 a : lacking a natural, usual, or appropriate covering b(1) : lacking clothing bare feet (2) obsolete : bareheaded c : lacking any tool or weapon opened the box with his bare hands 2 : open to view : exposed laying bare their secrets 3 a : unfurnished or scantily supplied a bare room b : destitute bare of all safeguards 4 a : having nothing left over or added the bare necessities of life b : mere a bare two hours away c : devoid of amplification or adornment the bare facts 5 obsolete : worthless bareness noun bare 2 of 3 verb ˈber bared; baring transitive verb : to make or lay (something) bare (see bare entry 1) : uncover bare 3 of 3 archaic past tense of bear Did you know? Usage Note on Bear There is considerable confusion between the verbs bear and bare. It may help to remember that the verb bare has only one meaning: "to uncover," as in "bare your shoulders" and "a dog baring its teeth." All other uses of the verb are for bear: "bearing children," "the right to bear arms," "bearing up under the stress/weight," "can't bear the thought," "bear south," "it bears repeating." There is occasional confusion between bear and bare in adjectival uses (as in "he rubbed his bear arms"), but bear is properly a noun and only used like an adjective in the financial phrase bear market. All other uses refer to the state of being uncovered or naked and should therefore be bare: "bare necessities," "bare essentials," "bare arms," "bare bones," "bare-knuckle," and so on. Did you know? Usage Note on Bear There is considerable confusion between the verbs bear and bare. It may help to remember that the verb bare has only one meaning: "to uncover," as in "bare your shoulders" and "a dog baring its teeth." All other uses of the verb are for bear: "bearing children," "the right to bear arms," "bearing up under the stress/weight," "can't bear the thought," "bear south," "it bears repeating." There is occasional confusion between bear and bare in adjectival uses (as in "he rubbed his bear arms"), but bear is properly a noun and only used like an adjective in the financial phrase bear market. All other uses refer to the state of being uncovered or naked and should therefore be bare: "bare necessities," "bare essentials," "bare arms," "bare bones," "bare-knuckle," and so on. Synonyms Adjective mere very Verb disclose discover divulge expose let on (about) reveal spill tell unbosom uncloak uncover unmask unveil See all Synonyms & Antonyms Example Sentences Adjective The brittle-looking branches of bare trees reached up from the horizon, and smoke could be seen curling from the chimneys of the sturdy stone houses in the villages we passed through. David McAninch, Saveur, November 2008 The dining room is warm and comfortable in a quasi-Tuscan-villa style, with bare wood floors, mottled walls, … and a glass room divider etched with images of grapes. Colman Andrews, Gourmet, March 2007 A scant two hours after his Derby victory, Monarchos was back in his … stall, beneath a bare bulb, eating carrots from a red bucket. Steve Rushin, Sports Illustrated, 14 May 2001 There was a rug in the front room of the house, but the other floors were bare. Do not let the bare wires touch. He covered her bare arms with his coat. He had a glove on his left hand, but his right hand was bare. The ground was bare where the statue had stood for years. There was only one bare shelf. Her office was pretty bare, having only one desk and one chair. This is the barest room in the house. He only told me the bare facts about what happened. Verb Ed McMahon calls upon the canine coach to help him settle down his aggressive … terrier, which is nice to Ed but bares its teeth at guests. TV Guide, 29 Oct.-4 Nov. 2007 You could argue that the very act of conducting a lengthy poll by telephone skews the response pool. What sort of person bares her soul to pollsters for upward of an hour—and during the holiday season yet? Katha Pollitt, Nation, 4/11 Aug. 2003 When Eastman called Death in the Afternoon (Hemingway's nonfiction book about bullfighting) "a literary style of wearing false hair on the chest," Hemingway had no other options than to bare his hirsute midsection and duke it out with his rival author in front of their editor, Max Perkins. The common mythology is that Hemingway beat Eastman to a bloody pulp, but Perkins' account had Eastman gaining the upper hand. Will Manley, Booklist, 1 Apr. 2001 The better analogy is to bare all on the talk shows in which ordinary people are encouraged to reveal intimate aspects of their private lives. Richard A. Posner, New Republic, 21 Aug. 2000 He bared his chest to show the scar. finally bared the secret that she had kept to herself for so long See More Recent Examples on the Web Adjective Environmental justice took a back seat to maximizing profit while doing the bare minimum. Essence, 29 Aug. 2022 What some quiet quitters call doing the bare minimum actually means giving full-attention to their work, then having a life outside work hours, says Brian Gray, who works in web development. Kathryn Dill And Angela Yang, WSJ, 25 Aug. 2022 By the standards of the NFL trade market, Indianapolis gave up the bare minimum in order to get Pryor. The Indianapolis Star, 22 Aug. 2022 The bare minimum here is 64 GB, but 128 or higher is even better. Riley Gutiérrez Mcdermid, USA TODAY, 21 Aug. 2022 The pandemic laid bare the gaps and disparities in the U.S. public health system, and often resulted in blowback against local officials trying to slow the coronavirus's spread. Katheryn Houghton, CNN, 15 Aug. 2022 And, like the Dreametech (in our roundup as well), the M7 wipes rather than actively mops bare floors. Stewart Wolpin, Popular Mechanics, 12 Aug. 2022 There is one TikTok from the brand Morphit Sea Moss that shows a chiseled man with brown skin and curly hair eating a coconut with his bare hands. Julissa Jamesstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2022 The assailant reportedly used Ogorchukwu’s own crutch to strike him first, then crushed him with his bare hands until Ogorchukwu suffocated. Paolo Maurizio Talanti, Vogue, 4 Aug. 2022 Verb From the start, Persuasion lays bare its conviction that this particular Austen heroine makes almost too much sense for our own moment, with our hyper-ironic personas and gratuitous fits of self-awareness. K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 16 July 2022 Throughout the United States, the fight for gender equality in laws that allow men, but not women, to bare their chests in public has been raging for decades. Kim Elsesser, Forbes, 5 May 2022 Just want to leave this here for the ignorant and arrogant people who have chosen to remain uneducated about what this means for we women who bare this burden. Charmaine Patterson, PEOPLE.com, 27 June 2022 And their journey to find that special someone lays bare their backgrounds, beliefs and preferences. Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, 21 July 2022 Viewers are met with an intimate gaze by the subjects, who bare their soul for my camera. Rica Cerbarano, Vogue, 11 July 2022 The pop icon has been known to bare it all on Instagram in the name of body positivity. Seventeen Editors, Seventeen, 7 June 2022 The movie lays bare a grudge that has become its own self-sustaining engine, unmoored from logic or reason. Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 May 2022 Some took up a pen to bare their hearts for those who were to come. Devi Shastri, Journal Sentinel, 21 June 2022 See More Word History Etymology Adjective and Verb Middle English, from Old English bær; akin to Old High German bar naked, Lithuanian basas barefoot First Known Use Adjective before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a Verb before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above Phrases Containing bare bare (it) all bare-handed bare-knuckle lay bare bare one's soul with one's bare hands to a (bare) minimum the bare bones bare essentials bare bones bare-knuckles bare-knuckled See More bare (it) all bare-handed bare-knuckle lay bare bare one's soul with one's bare hands to a (bare) minimum the bare bones bare essentials bare bones bare-knuckles bare-knuckled See More Kids Definition bare 1 of 2 adjective ˈber barer; barest 1 : having no covering : naked bare feet The trees were bare of leaves. 2 : empty entry 1 sense 1 The cupboard was bare. 3 : having nothing left over or added : mere the bare necessities … Thorton was abreast of him and a bare half-dozen strokes away … Jack London, The Call of the Wild 4 : bald sense 2 the bare facts bare 2 of 2 verb bared; baring : uncover sense 2 bare 1 of 2 adjective 1 as in mere being this and no more impoverished people who can no longer afford the bare necessities Synonyms & Similar Words Relevance mere very sheer simple only stark pure utter unadulterated solitary unmitigated total alone sole lone absolute outright unalloyed unqualified arrant singular out-and-out solo all-out unique 2 as in simple free from all additions or embellishment do you want to know the bare truth? Synonyms & Similar Words simple plain naked stripped unadorned bald clean undecorated unornamented unembellished unvarnished denuded restrained quiet honest spartan homely plain-vanilla elemental modest divested unsophisticated stark bleak earthy subdued natural minimalist unpretentious severe inconspicuous forthright austere muted conservative antiseptic unobtrusive au naturel understated sober toned (down) Antonyms & Near Antonyms fancy adorned decorated ornamented gaudy tawdry glittery showy garish embellished loud swanky glitzy flashy ornate swank lurid ostentatious flamboyant florid elaborate exaggerated trimmed bedizened overwrought ornate splashy overdecorated extravagant rococo baroque dressed overdone embroidered arrayed bedecked garnished apparelled appareled decked-out See More 3 as in exposed lacking a usual or natural covering the ground was bare, without a trace of grass Synonyms & Similar Words exposed naked stripped uncovered peeled open denuded bald unprotected shaven displayed skinned revealed hairless undressed unclad unclothed disrobed divested furless Antonyms & Near Antonyms covered mantled overgrown hairy bearded overrun overspread See More 4 as in naked lacking or shed of clothing the toddler liked to run around bare Synonyms & Similar Words naked stripped nude unclad undressed unclothed disrobed stark naked raw bottomless starkers au naturel peeled denuded topless mother-naked in the raw in the nude seminude in the buff in the altogether unveiled Antonyms & Near Antonyms covered clad clothed suited dressed robed invested veiled garbed attired apparelled arrayed vested appareled decent rigged (out) caparisoned decked (out) tricked (out) See More 5 as in devoid lacking contents that could or should be present the cupboard was bare—not a thing to eat Synonyms & Similar Words devoid empty barren clean stark blank vacant emptied hollow void drained deserted toom vacuous open clear dry uninhabited unoccupied available abandoned forsaken unfilled free depleted unattended unfurnished exhausted vacated Antonyms & Near Antonyms full complete occupied provided replete furnished filled supplied packed flush overflowing teeming See More 6 as in barren utterly lacking in something needed, wanted, or expected the cupboard was bare of baking supplies Synonyms & Similar Words devoid barren void empty destitute bereft bankrupt insufficient blank stark wanting partial vacant absent incomplete short fragmentary fragmental missing innocent deficient Antonyms & Near Antonyms full filled replete flush fraught provided furnished rife supplied crowded bursting saturated fat bulging crammed brimming stuffed thick packed loaded jammed chockful teeming swarming abounding chock-full jam-packed thronging See More bare 2 of 2 verb as in to reveal to make known (as information previously kept secret) finally bared the secret that she had kept to herself for so long Synonyms & Similar Words reveal disclose discover expose tell uncover share divulge spill announce unveil unbosom unmask own bring to light leak confide let the cat out of the bag (about) let on (about) uncloak spill the beans (about) publish unclothe post advertise betray confess unearth proclaim go public (with) bring out acknowledge inform placard declare impart show up give away broadcast sound smoke out undrape promulgate concede admit debunk relate avow disinter communicate publicize rake up blab blaze talk squeal Antonyms & Near Antonyms hide conceal veil cloak mask cover (up) shroud camouflage disguise enshroud varnish obscure gild shade whitewash gloss (over) overshadow darken cloud overcast becloud eclipse bedim befog See More Synonym Chooser Some common synonyms of bare are bald, barren, naked, and nude. While all these words mean "deprived of naturally or conventionally appropriate covering," bare implies the removal of what is additional, superfluous, ornamental, or dispensable. an apartment with bare walls The synonyms bald and bare are sometimes interchangeable, but bald implies actual or seeming absence of natural covering and may suggest a conspicuous bareness. a bald mountain peak The words barren and bare can be used in similar contexts, but barren often suggests aridity or impoverishment or sterility. barren plains While in some cases nearly identical to bare, naked suggests absence of protective or ornamental covering but may imply a state of nature, of destitution, or of defenselessness. poor half-naked children While the synonyms nude and bare are close in meaning, nude applies especially to the unclothed human figure. a nude model posing for art students
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