Meaning & Definition of Bare in English

1. Lay bare

• "Bare your breasts"

• "Bare your feelings"

2. Make public

• "She aired her opinions on welfare"

3. Lay bare

• "Denude a forest"

1. Completely unclothed

• "Bare bodies"

• "Naked from the waist up"

• "A nude model"

2. Lacking in amplitude or quantity

• "A bare livelihood"

• "A scanty harvest"

• "A spare diet"

3. Not having a protective covering

• "Unsheathed cables"

• "A bare blade"

4. Lacking its natural or customary covering

• "A bare hill"

• "Bare feet"

5. Just barely adequate or within a lower limit

• "A bare majority"

• "A marginal victory"

6. Apart from anything else

• Without additions or modifications

• "Only the bare facts"

• "Shocked by the mere idea"

• "The simple passage of time was enough"

• "The simple truth"

7. Lacking a surface finish such as paint

• "Bare wood"

• "Unfinished furniture"

8. Providing no shelter or sustenance

• "Bare rocky hills"

• "Barren lands"

• "The bleak treeless regions of the high andes"

• "The desolate surface of the moon"

• "A stark landscape"

9. Having everything extraneous removed including contents

• "The bare walls"

• "The cupboard was bare"

10. Lacking embellishment or ornamentation

• "A plain hair style"

• "Unembellished white walls"

• "Functional architecture featuring stark unornamented concrete"