bare

adjective

1. 1

   Minimal; that is or are just sufficient.

   a bare majority

   Nature indeed furnishes us with the bare necessaries of life, but traffic gives us a great variety of what is useful

2. 2

   Naked, uncovered.

   "I refuse to show myself out of doors in my bare feet," the Centipede said. "I have to get my boots on again first."

3. 3

   Having no supplies.

   a room bare of furniture

   The cupboard was bare.

   Localities across New Jersey imposed curfews to prevent looting. In Monmouth, Ocean and other counties, people waited for hours for gasoline at the few stations that had electricity. Supermarket shelves were stripped bare.

4. 4

   Having no decoration.

   The walls of this room are bare — why not hang some paintings on them?

5. 5

   Having had what usually covers (something) removed.

   The trees were left bare after the swarm of locusts devoured all the leaves.

6. 6

   slangA lot or lots of.

   It's taking bare time.

   The phone would answer, we'd go round the corner, pass something to someone, go back and we'd have bare dough, we'd have bare money in our pocket.

   You shagged bare lads, you're a little sket / Have you heard your bars? They're fucking pept

   Oh, come on. Help a brother out. People see you coppin', might inspire them. Look, I know you ain't payin' bills right now. Man must have bare peas saved up.

7. 7

   With head uncovered; bareheaded.

   When once thy foot enters the church, be bare. / God is more there, then thou: for thou art there / Onely by his permiſſion.

8. 8

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

   Bare in thy guilt how foul muſt thou appear?

9. 9

   figurativeMere; without embellishment.

   bare essentials; bare necessities

   Those who lent him money lent it on no security but his bare word.

10. 10

    Threadbare, very worn.

    for it appears, by their bare liveries, that they live by your bare words.

11. 11

    Not insured.

    Before the company was formed, the firm went bare for about three months in 1985, but it now has prior acts coverage for that time.

    That a firm chooses to go bare has no effect on whether it gets sued or not.

adverb

1. 1

   Barely.

   The fiend had bare departed when Ailie came over the threshold to find the auld carline glunching over the fire.

   He finally came back to himself and asked why the furor. "Why," Lucy said, "because this is Christmas Eve. We have bare enough time to get ready for the ball, after dinner, as it is."

   “I've bare enough for these two, much less fill your belly.”

2. 2

   slangVery; significantly.

   That pissed me off bare.

   That's bare stupid.

3. 3

   slangWithout a condom.

   While none of the participants had complete confidence in condoms, they continued to use them as a better alternative than “going in bare".

   It would be fine to have these women bare, without condoms.

   I like to go bare. I don't like wearing condoms, actually I hate 'em.

noun

1. 1

   The surface, the (bare) skin.

   In sad good earnest, sir, you have toucht the very bare of naked truth [...]

   Vancha clasped the bare of my neck and squeezed amiably.

2. 2

   Surface; body; substance.

   You have touched the very bare of naked truth.

3. 3

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

verb

1. 1

   figurativeTo uncover; to reveal.

   She bared her teeth at him.

   The tabloid newspaper promised to bare all.

verb

1. 1

   Also a form of bearobsoletesimple past of bear

   And the children of the Levites bare the ark of God upon their shoulders with the staves thereon

   And so I put thee on my shoulder and bare thee back, and here thou art in David's room, and shalt find board and bed with me as long as thou hast mind to

Forms

plural

bares

comparative

barer

superlative

barest

past tense

bared

past participle

bared

present participle

baring

third person singular

bares