English English Dictionary

Without clothes or covering; stripped of the usual covering; naked; as, his body is bare; the trees are bare.

With head uncovered; bareheaded.

Without anything to cover up or conceal one's thoughts or actions; open to view; exposed.

Plain; simple; unadorned; without polish; bald; meager.

Destitute; indigent; empty; unfurnished or scantily furnished; -- used with of (rarely with in) before the thing wanting or taken away; as, a room bare of furniture.

Threadbare; much worn.

Mere; alone; unaccompanied by anything else; as, a bare majority.

Surface; body; substance.

That part of a roofing slate, shingle, tile, or metal plate, which is exposed to the weather.

To strip off the covering of; to make bare; as, to bare the breast.

Bore; the old preterit of Bear, v.

of Bear