bare

/bɛər/

/bɛə/

Other forms: bared; baring; barest; bares; barer

When you kick off your shoes to walk on the beach, you are enjoying the feeling of your bare feet in the warm sand. The adjective bare describes something or someone that is naked or unclothed.

Bare can be used in many different ways: to describe the inside of your nearly-empty refrigerator, an uncarpeted floor, or your unadorned, sparsely decorated bedroom. The word bare can also be used as a verb meaning "to uncover or expose." When you reveal deep truths about yourself to another person — imagine confessing your passion for stamp collecting to a girl you like — you "bare your soul."

Definitions of bare

1. adjective

   lacking its natural or customary covering
   “a bare hill”

   “bare feet”

   synonyms:

   bald, denudate, denuded

   without the natural or usual covering

   naked

   lacking any cover

   undraped

   lacking drapery or draperies

   unroofed

   having no roof

   antonyms:

   covered

   overlaid or spread or topped with or enclosed within something; sometimes used as a combining form

   ariled, arillate

   (of some seeds) having a fleshy and usually brightly colored cover

   awninged

   covered with an awning

   beaded

   covered with beads of liquid

   blanketed

   covered with (or as if with) a blanket

   canopied

   covered with or as with a canopy

   cloaked, clothed, draped, mantled, wrapped

   covered with or as if with clothes or a wrap or cloak

   crusted, crustlike, crusty, encrusted

   having a hardened crust as a covering

   dabbled, spattered, splashed, splattered

   covered with bright patches (often used in combination)

   drenched, drenched in

   abundantly covered or supplied with; often used in combination

   dust-covered, dusty

   covered with a layer of dust

   moon-splashed

   splashed or covered patchily with moonlight

   moss-grown, mossy

   overgrown with moss

   mud-beplastered

   covered with or as if with mud

   muffled

   wrapped up especially for protection or secrecy

   peritrichous

   covered all over with uniformly distributed flagella

   plastered, sealed

   (of walls) covered with a coat of plaster

   overgrown

   covered with growing plants

   sealed

   covered with a waterproof coating

   smothered

   completely covered

   snow-clad, snow-covered, snowy

   covered with snow

   splashy

   covered with patches of bright color

   sun-drenched

   covered with sunlight

   thickspread

   covered thickly

   tiled

   covered or furnished with tiles

   snowy, white

   marked by the presence of snow
2. adjective

   not having a protective covering
   “a bare blade”

   synonyms: unsheathed
3. adjective

   providing no shelter or sustenance
   “bare rocky hills”

   synonyms: barren, bleak, desolate, stark

   inhospitable

   unfavorable to life or growth
4. adjective

   lacking a surface finish such as paint
   “bare wood”

   synonyms: unfinished

   unpainted

   not having a coat of paint or badly in need of a fresh coat
5. adjective

   completely unclothed
   synonyms: au naturel, naked, nude

   unclothed

   not wearing clothing
6. verb

   lay bare
   “bare your feelings”

   type of:

   expose, uncover

   remove all or part of one's clothes to show one's body
7. verb

   lay bare
   synonyms: denudate, denude, strip

   types:

   defoliate

   strip the leaves or branches from

   burn off

   clear land of its vegetation by burning it off

   type of:

   clear

   remove
8. adjective

   lacking in amplitude or quantity
   “a bare livelihood”

   synonyms: scanty, spare

   meager, meagerly, meagre, scrimpy, stingy

   deficient in amount or quality or extent
9. adjective

   lacking embellishment or ornamentation
   synonyms: plain, spare, unembellished, unornamented

   unadorned, undecorated

   not decorated with something to increase its beauty or distinction
10. adjective

    having everything extraneous removed including contents
    “the bare walls”

    “the cupboard was bare”

    synonyms: stripped

    empty

    holding or containing nothing
11. adjective

    apart from anything else; without additions or modifications
    “only the bare facts”

    synonyms: mere, simple

    plain

    not elaborate or elaborated; simple
12. adjective

    just barely adequate or within a lower limit
    “a bare majority”

    synonyms: marginal

    narrow

    very limited in degree
13. verb

    make public
    synonyms: air, publicise, publicize

    types:

    hype

    publicize in an exaggerated and often misleading manner

    bulletin

    make public by bulletin

    bring out, issue, publish, put out, release

    prepare and issue for public distribution or sale

    broadcast, circularise, circularize, circulate, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, distribute, pass around, propagate, spread

    cause to become widely known

    air, beam, broadcast, send, transmit

    disseminate over the airwaves, as in radio or television

    edit

    supervise the publication of

    podcast

    distribute (multimedia files) over the internet for playback on a mobile device or a personal computer

    satellite

    broadcast or disseminate via satellite

    sportscast

    broadcast a sports event

    sow

    introduce into an environment

    telecast, televise

    broadcast via television

    generalise, generalize, popularise, popularize, vulgarise, vulgarize

    cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use

    interrogate

    transmit (a signal) for setting off an appropriate response, as in telecommunication

    rebroadcast, rerun

    broadcast again, as of a film

    carry, run

    include as the content; broadcast or publicize

    type of:

    tell

    let something be known