bareadjective
uk/beər/us/ber/bare adjective (NO CLOTHES)
B2 without any clothes or not covered by anything:
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- She beat the flames out with her bare hands.
- The silhouette of the bare tree on the hill was clear against the winter sky.
- The walls look a bit bare - can't we put some pictures up?
- During the summer months, the sheep strip the mountains bare.
- A glimpse of his bare torso set my pulse racing.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Not wearing or removing clothes
- altogether
- barefoot
- bareheaded
- birthday
- buck naked
- buff
- commando
- fling
- in the buff idiom
- in the raw idiom
- in your birthday suit idiom
- in your stocking(ed) feet idiom
- kit
- shuck
- shuck sth off
- slip
- slip out of sth
- starkers
- streak
- streaker
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bare adjective (BASIC)
C2 only the most basic or important:
the least possible amount:
the most basic things that you need in order to live or to do something:
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Crude and basic
- 101
- at bottom idiom
- backward
- basic
- bottom
- crude
- elementary
- low-tech
- Mickey Mouse
- primal
- primordial
- rough
- rough and ready idiom
- rude
- simple
- skeletal
- stone-age
- two-dimensional
- vanilla
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bare adjective (EMPTY)
C2 literary If a cupboard or room is bare, there is nothing in it.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Empty
- barren
- blank
- clear
- dead
- deserted
- desolate
- desolation
- emptiness
- empty
- flat
- hollow
- lifeless
- nothingness
- unfurnished
- uninhabited
- unoccupied
- vacant
- vacuum
- void
Idiom(s)
bareverb [ T ]
uk/beər/us/ber/to take away the thing that is covering something so that it can be seen:
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Not wearing or removing clothes
- altogether
- barefoot
- bareheaded
- birthday
- buck naked
- buff
- commando
- fling
- in the buff idiom
- in the raw idiom
- in your birthday suit idiom
- in your stocking(ed) feet idiom
- kit
- shuck
- shuck sth off
- slip
- slip out of sth
- starkers
- streak
- streaker
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Idiom(s)
bareadverb, determiner
UK slang very:
UK slang a lot; very much:
UK slang a large number or amount of; a lot of: