bare
- adjective
- /bɛr/
- He stood on the bare ground without any shoes on his feet.
- bare ground
- bare soil
- bare-breasted
I thought, watching her bare footprints in the new snow.
- I thought, watching her bare footprints in the new snow.
- You need that like bare ankle space, I guess.
- Electrons and ions or stripped bare nuclei actually matter in this case.
- She saw the hand touch the child's bare flinching arm.
- walking without a shirt on, just bare and the
Examples
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In most places, the mix of grasses, shrubs, heath, and bare soil is apparent at the landscape level.
Academic text (2008) -
No one left and no one came on the bare platform.
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Dude, I went inside and it was completely bare.
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It was just so bare and quiet.
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I thought my cupboards were bare.
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Don't you think the front lawn looks a little bare?
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And already the land around them was shorn and bare from the grazing of cattle and buffalo.
Fiction book (1990) -
The pine-covered slopes, waterfalls, and outcrops of bare gray rock all felt familiar.
Academic text (2008) -
The garden looked empty and bare after the autumn leaves fell.
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The wall was bare, lacking any decoration or paint.
Synonyms
Not containing anything
Not wearing any clothes on the body
Simple and not decorated or flavored
A surface that has nothing written or printed on it
Not wearing any clothes
Empty and bleak with little life or shelter
Very plain and empty with no decoration
An open empty place with little shelter or plants
Simple and plain with very little extra
Having no useful ideas or emotion
Make something clear and open for everyone to see
Wooden things like tables that have no paint or varnish
Plain in appearance with no decoration
Not wearing clothes or makeup
Completely without clothes with the bottom showing
Completely without clothes
Not wearing metal plates or a hard cover for protection
Plain and not having any extra things added to make it look nicer
Plain and simple in appearance without extra decoration
Not wearing clothes on a part of the body
Not covered by clothes and showing skin
Left empty with no furniture or other things
A thing with no cover or lid that lets you see what is inside
A thing without a cover that is exposed to harm
Having no protective outer covering like fur or seed skin
Plain and not decorated, like a simple room or building
Having no decorations
Not covered with cloth or curtains, so visible and open
A wall left without plaster or cement
Without an outer covering or finished surface
Having no colored layer on its surface
Objects without a thin metal coating to protect them
Having nothing inside, like an empty box
Being very simple and having only the basic parts
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Etymology
Bare meaning 'not covered' comes from an old English word for 'naked', so imagine a table with no cloth — it is open and you can see what is under it. That's why bare means exposed, empty, or plain.