“bare”

Definitions

• adjective

  having no clothes on the body

  Synonyms: au naturel, naked, nude, spartan, absolute, and, ascetic, austere, bald, bankrupt, bared, barren

  • Example:“bare bodies”
  • Example:“naked from the waist up”

• adjective

  lacking in magnitude or quantity

  Synonyms: scanty, spare

  • Example:“a bare livelihood”
  • Example:“a scanty harvest”

• adjective

  not having a protective covering

  Synonyms: unsheathed

  • Example:“unsheathed cables”
  • Example:“a bare blade”

• adjective

  lacking its natural or customary covering

  Antonyms: covered

  • Example:“a bare hill”
  • Example:“bare feet”

• adjective

  just barely adequate or within a lower limit

  Synonyms: marginal

  • Example:“a bare majority”
  • Example:“a marginal victory”

• adjective

  apart from anything else; without additions or modifications

  Synonyms: mere, simple

  • Example:“only the bare facts”
  • Example:“shocked by the mere idea”