FromMiddle English bare bar Old English bær ( “ bare, naked, open ” ) , fromProto-West Germanic *baʀ Proto-Germanic *bazaz ( “ bare, naked ” ) , fromProto-Indo-European *bʰosós *bʰos- ( “ bare, barefoot ” ) .
Cognate withScots 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 ” ) .
bare (comparative barer superlative barest
Minimal ; that is or are just sufficient.Synonyms: mere minimal Antonyms: ample plentiful sufficient abare majority 1711 May 30 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison ], “SATURDAY, May 19, 1711”, inThe Spectator 69 ; republished inAlexander Chalmers , editor,The Spectator; a New Edition, [ … ] , volume I, New York, N.Y.:D[aniel] Appleton & Company ,1853 ,→OCLC Nature indeed furnishes us with thebare necessaries of life, but traffic gives us a great variety of what is useful The spelling has been modernized. Naked ,uncovered .Synonyms: exposed naked nude uncovered undressed Antonyms: covered covered up dressed unexposed Having nosupplies .Synonyms: empty unfurnished unstocked unsupplied Antonyms: full furnished stocked supply supplied well-stocked a roombare of furniture
The cupboard wasbare .
2012 October 31, David M. Halbfinger,New York Times , retrieved31 October 2012 :Localities across New Jersey imposed curfews to prevent looting. In Monmouth, Ocean and other counties, people waited for hours for gasoline at the few stations that had electricity. Supermarket shelves were strippedbare .
Having nodecoration .Synonyms: empty plain unadorned undecorated see also Thesaurus:unadorned Antonyms: adorned decorated ornate see also Thesaurus:gaudy The walls of this room arebare — why not hang some paintings on them?
Having had what usually covers (something) removed.Synonyms: despoiled stripped uncovered Antonym: covered The trees were leftbare after the swarm of locusts devoured all the leaves.
( MLE , MTE , Yorkshire , slang , not comparable ) It's takingbare time.
2005 July 13, Ryan, quotee, “‘We like the easy money. We like the lifestyle’”, inThe Guardian [1] The phone would answer, we'd go round the corner, pass something to someone, go back and we'd havebare dough, we'd havebare money in our pocket.
2016 December 3, Millie B, “Soph Aspin Send”, performed by Millie B:You shaggedbare lads, you're a little sket / Have you heard your bars? They're fucking pept
2023 Nathan Bryon , Tom Melia, directed byRaine Allen-Miller ,Rye Lane Simon Manyonda ):Oh, come on. Help a brother out. People see you coppin', might inspire them. Look, I know you ain't payin' bills right now. Man must havebare peas saved up.
With head uncovered;bareheaded .Synonym: uncovered [ 1633 ] George Herbert , “The Church-porch”, in [Nicholas Ferrar ], editor,The Temple. Sacred Poems, and Private Ejaculations , Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: [ … ] Thomas Buck and Roger Daniel; and are to be sold by Francis Green, [ … ] →OCLC page14 :When once thy foot enters the church, bebare . / God is more there, then thou: for thou art there / Onely by his permiſſion.
Without anything to cover up or conceal one's thoughts or actions; open to view;exposed .Synonyms: apparent displayed see also Thesaurus:apparent Antonyms: concealed obscured see also Thesaurus:hidden ( figuratively ) Mere ; withoutembellishment .Synonyms: alone simple only very Threadbare , very worn.Synonyms: shabby worn-out c. 1590–1591 (date written)William Shakespeare , “The Two Gentlemen of Verona ”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [ … ] (First Folio ), London: [ … ] Isaac Iaggard , andEd[ ward] Blount , published1623 ,→OCLC [ Act II, scene iv] :for it appears, by theirbare liveries, that they live by your bare words.
Notinsured .Synonyms: noninsured uninsured 1987 December 1,ABA Journal , page86 :Before the company was formed, the firm wentbare for about three months in 1985, but it now has prior acts coverage for that time.
1994 The Architect's Handbook of Professional Practice , page310 :That a firm chooses to gobare has no effect on whether it gets sued or not.
Terms derived frombare (adjective)
naked, uncovered
Armenian:մերկ (hy) ( merk ) ,տկլոր (hy) ( tklor ) Basque:has (eu) Bulgarian:гол (bg) ( gol ) ,непокрит (bg) ( nepokrit ) Chinese:Mandarin:裸 (zh) ( luǒ ) ,赤裸 (zh) ( chìluǒ ) Danish:bar (da) Dutch:bloot (nl) Esperanto:nuda (eo) Faroese:berur Finnish:paljas (fi) French:nu (fr) m nue (fr) f German:bar (de) ,nackt (de) Gothic:𐌽𐌰𐌵𐌰𐌸𐍃 ( naqaþs ) Greek:Ancient:γυμνός ( gumnós ) ,ψιλός ( psilós ) Hungarian:csupasz (hu) ,pőre (hu) ,meztelen (hu) Ingrian:paljas paljakas Italian:nudo (it) m nuda (it) f Korean:맨 (ko) ( maen ) Latin:nudus m nuda f nudum n Latvian:pliks (lv) Manx:lhome Norman:nu Norwegian:Bokmål:naken (no) ,bar (no) Nynorsk:naken Old English:bær Ottoman Turkish:عریان ( ʼuryan ) Persian:برهنه (fa) ( berahne ) Portuguese:nu (pt) m Russian:го́лый (ru) ( gólyj ) Sanskrit:ऋक्ष (sa) ( ṛkṣa ) Scottish Gaelic:rùisgte lom lomnochd Spanish:desnudo (es) Swedish:bar (sv) Tagalog:hubad (tl) Turkish:çıplak (tr) Vietnamese:trần (vi) ,trơ (vi) ,trụi (vi) Volapük:nüdik (vo) Walloon:nou (wa) m West Frisian:keal
having had what usually covers (something) removed
slang words meaning "lot or lots of"
Translations to be checked
bare
( dialect ) Barely .1902 The Outgoing of the Tide :The fiend hadbare departed when Ailie came over the threshold to find the auld carline glunching over the fire.
2009 The Wars of the Shannons :He finally came back to himself and asked why the furor. "Why," Lucy said, "because this is Christmas Eve. We havebare enough time to get ready for the ball, after dinner, as it is."
2011 Warprize :“I'vebare enough for these two, much less fill your belly.”
( MLE , slang ) That pissed me offbare .
That'sbare stupid.
( slang ) condom .2000 Northeast African Studies - Volume 7 , page119 :While none of the participants had complete confidence in condoms, they continued to use them as a better alternative than “going inbare ".
2002 The Society of Malawi Journal - Volumes 55-58 , page70 :It would be fine to have these womenbare , without condoms.
2010 I Am Not the Father: Narratives of Men Falsely Accused of Paternity ,→ISBN I like to gobare . I don't like wearing condoms, actually I hate 'em.
slang words meaning "very, significantly"
bare (plural bares
( ‘the bare’ ) 2002 Hunters of the dusk: 7 :Vancha clasped thebare of my neck and squeezed amiably.
Surface; body; substance. ( architecture ) FromMiddle English baren Old English barian Proto-Germanic *bazōną ( “ to bare, make bare ” ) .
bare (third-person singular simple present bares present participle baring simple past and past participle bared
( transitive , sometimes figurative ) uncover ; toreveal .Shebared her teeth at him.
The tabloid newspaper promised tobare all.
The verb should not be confused with the verbbear .
Terms derived frombare (verb)
Inflected forms.
bare
( obsolete ) simplepast ofbear [ 1898 ] J[ohn] Meade Falkner ,Moonfleet Jonathan Cape , published1934 ,→OCLC And so I put thee on my shoulder andbare thee back, and here thou art in David's room, and shalt find board and bed with me as long as thou hast mind to
William Dwight Whitney ,Benjamin E[li] Smith , editors (1911 ), “bare ”, inThe Century Dictionary [ … ] The Century Co. ,→OCLC “bare ”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary G. & C. Merriam ,1913 ,→OCLC “bare adj. ”, inGreen’s Dictionary of Slang Jonathon Green , 2016–present bare (comparative bareago superlative bareen excessive bareegi
calm bare anim
slug bare inan
spleen “bare ”, inOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary Euskaltzaindia ,1987–2005 “bare ”, inEuskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language ] “bare ” inEtymological Dictionary of Basque byR. L. Trask , sussex.ac.uk bare
vocative singular ofbar From the adjectivebar ( “ naked ” ) .
bare
just simply only ,merely bare
Iwish , Ihope ,if only ( introduces a wish ) 1979 Vi har kun hinanden: To som elsker hinanden ,→ISBN Bare vi var alene.I wish we were alone.2014 Blodets bånd #1: Blodsøstre , Tellerup A/S,→ISBN „Bare jeg kunne blive hele natten," fortsatte han. "If only I could stay all night", he continued. 2013 Tanker om tid: 15 udvalgte noveller , BoD – Books on Demand,→ISBN 43 :Bare jeg kunne spole tiden tilbage.If only I could rewind time. if only ( introduces a conditional subclause ) See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.
bare
inflection ofbar definite singular plural bare
( dated or formal ) singular present subjunctive ofbaren bare
inflection ofbar strong / mixed nominative / accusative feminine singular strong nominative / accusative plural weak nominative all-gendersingular weak accusative feminine / neuter singular bare f
plural ofbara bare m
locative / vocative singular ofbaras (Thisetymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at theEtymology scriptorium .)
bare
best FromOld Dutch *bāra Proto-West Germanic *bāru Proto-Germanic *bērō
bâre f
bier ,stretcher This noun needs aninflection-table template .
FromOld English bær Proto-West Germanic *baʀ Proto-Germanic *bazaz
bare
unclothed ;naked ,nude bare
( Northern ) Alternative form ofbor bare
tostand ComparePersian باره ( bâre ,“ subject, issue ” ) .
bare m
topic hashtag bare
definite singular ofbar plural ofbar bare
only ,merely ,just but bare
if ;as long as “bare” inThe Bokmål Dictionary .bare
( pre-2012 ) alternative form ofberre bare
inflection ofbær strong feminine accusative singular strong masculine / neuter instrumental singular strong masculine / feminine nominative / accusative plural weak feminine / neuter nominative singular weak neuter accusative singular bare (Cyrillic spelling баре
vocative singular ofbȃr bare (Cyrillic spelling баре
inflection ofbȁra genitive singular nominative / accusative / vocative plural bare
definite natural masculine singular ofbar 
