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bare

adjective

1 he was bare from the waist up:

naked, unclothed, undressed, uncovered, stripped, with nothing on, in a state of nature, disrobed, unclad, undraped, exposed;

nude, in the nude, stark naked;

French au naturel;

informal without a stitch on, in one's birthday suit, in the raw, in the altogether, in the buff, as naked as the day one was born, in the nuddy, mother naked;

British, informal starkers;

Scottish, informal in the scud, scuddy;

North American, informal bare-assed, buck naked;

Australian, informal bollocky;

British, vulgar slang bollock-naked.

▷antonyms clothed.

2 a bare room:

empty, emptied, unfurnished, vacant, clear, cleared, free, stark, austere, spartan, unadorned, unembellished, unornamented, unfussy, plain.

▷antonyms furnished, embellished.

3 bare floorboards:

uncovered, uncarpeted, unpainted, unvarnished;

stripped;

polished, sealed.

4 a cupboard bare of food:

empty of, emptied of, without, lacking, devoid of, bereft of, wanting, deprived of, destitute of, free from.

▷antonyms containing.

5 a bare landscape:

barren, bleak, exposed, desolate, stark, arid, desert, denuded, lunar;

treeless, forestless, without vegetation, defoliated;

unsheltered, unprotected, unshielded;

rare unwooded.

▷antonyms lush.

6 Herodotus did not record just the bare facts:

straightforward, plain, simple, basic, pure, essential, bare-bones, fundamental, stripped down, cut down, stark, bald, cold, hard;

truthful, realistic, true to life;

brutal, harsh;

explicit, unequivocal, unambiguous, unexaggerated, unadorned, unembellished, undisguised, unveiled, unvarnished, unqualified;

informal warts and all.

7 the bare minimum | a bare majority:

mere, no more than, no better than, just a, only a, simple, sheer, very, basic;

slim, slight, slender, paltry, skimpy, minimum, trifling.

▷antonyms comfortable.

verb

he bared his arm:

uncover, strip, lay bare, undress, unclothe, denude, unveil, unmask;

expose, expose to view, reveal;

display, put on display, put on show, exhibit.

▷antonyms cover.

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