bare.
Minimal; that is or are just sufficient.
Meaning & usage
Minimal; that is or are just sufficient.
a bare majority
Naked, uncovered.
Having no supplies.
a room bare of furniture
The cupboard was bare.
Having no decoration.
The walls of this room are bare — why not hang some paintings on them?
Having had what usually covers (something) removed.
The trees were left bare after the swarm of locusts devoured all the leaves.
A lot or lots of.
It's taking bare time.
With head uncovered; bareheaded.
Without anything to cover up or conceal one's thoughts or actions; open to view; exposed.
Mere; without embellishment.
bare essentials; bare necessities
Threadbare, very worn.
Not insured.
Where this word comes from
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”).
Barely.
Very; significantly.
That pissed me off bare.
That's bare stupid.
Without a condom.
Where this word comes from
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”).
The surface, the (bare) skin.
Surface; body; substance.
That part of a roofing slate, shingle, tile, or metal plate, which is exposed to the weather.
Where this word comes from
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”).
To uncover; to reveal.
She bared her teeth at him.
The tabloid newspaper promised to bare all.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English baren, from Old English barian, from Proto-Germanic *bazōną (“to bare, make bare”).
simple past of bear
Where this word comes from
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