English English Dictionary

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

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.

On the bare back of a horse, without using a saddle; as, to ride bareback.

Having the back uncovered; as, a barebacked horse.

A very lean person; one whose bones show through the skin.

of Bare

With the face uncovered; not masked.

Without concealment; undisguised. Hence: Shameless; audacious.

Openly; shamelessly.

The quality of being barefaced; shamelessness; assurance; audaciousness.

With the feet bare; without shoes or stockings.

Having the feet bare.