bare

UK /bɛə/ US /bɛɚ/
adj 5adv 3noun 3name 2verb 1

Definitions

adj

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

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

Having no supplies.

a room bare of furniture

The cupboard was bare.

4

Having no decoration.

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

5

Having had what usually covers (something) removed.

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

adv

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."

2

Very; significantly.

That pissed me off bare.

That's bare stupid.

3

Without 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.

noun

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

Surface; body; substance.

You have touched the very bare of naked truth.

3

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

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