bare
Part of speech: adj
adv
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: architecture
Etymology: From Middle English bare, bar, from Old English bær (“bare, naked, open”), from Proto-West Germanic *baʀ, from Proto-Germanic *bazaz (“bare, naked”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰosós, from *bʰos- (“bare, barefoot”).
Cognate with Scots bare, bair (“bare”), Saterland Frisian bar (“bare”), West Frisian baar (“bare”), Dutch bar (“bare”), German bar (“bare”), Swedish bar (“bare”), Icelandic ber (“bare”), Lithuanian basas (“barefoot, bare”), Polish bosy (“barefoot”).
Inflected forms:
form: barer
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: barest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: bares
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bares
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: baring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bared
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bared
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Minimal; that is or are just sufficient.
pos: adj
examples: a bare majority
Nature indeed furnishes us with the bare necessaries of life, but traffic gives us a great variety of what is useful
gloss: Naked, uncovered.
pos: adj
examples: "I refuse to show myself out of doors in my bare feet," the Centipede said. "I have to get my boots on again first."
gloss: Having no supplies.
pos: adj
examples: 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.
gloss: Having no decoration.
pos: adj
examples: The walls of this room are bare — why not hang some paintings on them?
gloss: Having had what usually covers (something) removed.
pos: adj
examples: The trees were left bare after the swarm of locusts devoured all the leaves.
gloss: A lot or lots of.
pos: adj
tags: Multicultural-London-English
Yorkshire
not-comparable
slang
examples: 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.
gloss: With head uncovered; bareheaded.
pos: adj
examples: When once thy foot enters the church, be bare. / God is more there, then thou: for thou art there / Onely by his permiſſion.
gloss: Without anything to cover up or conceal one's thoughts or actions; open to view; exposed.
pos: adj
examples: Bare in thy guilt how foul muſt thou appear?
gloss: Mere; without embellishment.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: bare essentials; bare necessities
Those who lent him money lent it on no security but his bare word.
gloss: Threadbare, very worn.
pos: adj
examples: for it appears, by their bare liveries, that they live by your bare words.
gloss: Not insured.
pos: adj
examples: 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.
gloss: Barely.
pos: adv
tags: dialectal
examples: 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.”
gloss: Very; significantly.
pos: adv
tags: Multicultural-London-English
slang
examples: That pissed me off bare.
That's bare stupid.
gloss: Without a condom.
pos: adv
tags: slang
examples: 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.
gloss: The surface, the (bare) skin.
pos: noun
examples: In sad good earnest, sir, you have toucht the very bare of naked truth [...]
Vancha clasped the bare of my neck and squeezed amiably.
gloss: Surface; body; substance.
pos: noun
examples: You have touched the very bare of naked truth.
gloss: That part of a roofing slate, shingle, tile, or metal plate, which is exposed to the weather.
pos: noun
gloss: To uncover; to reveal.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
sometimes
transitive
examples: She bared her teeth at him.
The tabloid newspaper promised to bare all.
Antonyms: cover
cover up
hide
Derived words: ace bare
barearse
bare-arse
bareass
bare-assed
bareback
bare-backed
barebacked
bare beater
bare beating
bare-bellied
bare-bellied Joe
bare board
bareboat
barebone
bare-boned
bare bones
bare-bones
bare-boobed
bare-bottomed
barebow
bare-breasted
bare-bum
barebutt
bare-butt
barechested
bare-chested
bare-eared squirrel monkey
bare essentials
bare-eye
bare-eyed cockatoo
barefaced
barefast
barefoot
barefooted
bare-footed
bare-footen
barehand
bare hand
barehanded
bare-handed
bare-handedly
bare-handedness
bare-headed
bareheaded
bare infinitive
bareish
bare king
bare knuckle
bare-knuckle
bare-knuckle boxing
bare-knuckled
bare knuckled
bare-knuckle fight
bare knuckling
bare-knuckling
bareland
barelegged
bare-legged owl
bare license
barely
bare metal
bare minimum
bare minimum Monday
bare navy
barenecked
bareness
bare noun
bare patch
bare poles
bare-root
bareroot
baresark
bare-shouldered
bareskin
bare-skin
bare-throated bellbird
bare trust
bareword
barish
in one's bare skin
king bare
lay bare
lay bare one's soul
pale-faced bare-eye
the cupboard is bare
threadbare
unbare
with one's bare hands
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