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Thesaurus: bare

Without clothes or covering; stripped of the usual covering; naked; as, his body is bare; the trees are bare.

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  1. a. Without clothes or covering; stripped of the usual covering; naked; as, his body is bare; the trees are bare.
  2. a. With head uncovered; bareheaded.
  3. a. Without anything to cover up or conceal one's thoughts or actions; open to view; exposed.
  4. a. Plain; simple; unadorned; without polish; bald; meager.
  5. a. Destitute; indigent; empty; unfurnished or scantily furnished; -- used with of (rarely with in) before the thing wanting or taken away; as, a room bare of furniture.
  6. a. Threadbare; much worn.
  7. a. Mere; alone; unaccompanied by anything else; as, a bare majority.
  8. n. Surface; body; substance.
  9. n. That part of a roofing slate, shingle, tile, or metal plate, which is exposed to the weather.
  10. a. To strip off the covering of; to make bare; as, to bare the breast.
  11. Bore; the old preterit of Bear, v.
  12. of Bear