Dictionary Entry
bare
bare is a 4-letter English word with 24 senses as adjective, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Without clothes or covering; stripped of the usual covering; naked; as, his body is bare; the trees are bare. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 7 · 24 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Without clothes or covering; stripped of the usual covering; naked; as, his body is bare; the trees are bare.
- 2adjective
With head uncovered; bareheaded.
- 3adjective
Without anything to cover up or conceal one's thoughts or actions; open to view; exposed.
- 4adjective
Plain; simple; unadorned; without polish; bald; meager.
- 5adjective
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.
- 6adjective
Threadbare; much worn.
- 7adjective
Mere; alone; unaccompanied by anything else; as, a bare majority.
- 8noun
Surface; body; substance.
- 9noun
That part of a roofing slate, shingle, tile, or metal plate, which is exposed to the weather.
- 10adjective
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
- 13verb
lay bare
"denude a forest"
- 14verb
make public
"She aired her opinions on welfare"
- 15adjective
lacking embellishment or ornamentation
"a plain hair style"
"unembellished white walls"
- 16adjective
lacking in amplitude or quantity
"a bare livelihood"
"a scanty harvest"
- 17adjective
completely unclothed
"bare bodies"
"naked from the waist up"
- 18adjective
having everything extraneous removed including contents
"the bare walls"
"the cupboard was bare"
Synonyms
- 19adjective
providing no shelter or sustenance
"bare rocky hills"
"barren lands"
- 20adjective
lacking its natural or customary covering
"a bare hill"
"bare feet"
- 21adjective
lacking a surface finish such as paint
"bare wood"
"unfinished furniture"
Synonyms
- 22adjective
apart from anything else; without additions or modifications
"only the bare facts"
"shocked by the mere idea"
- 23adjective
not having a protective covering
"unsheathed cables"
"a bare blade"
Synonyms
- 24adjective
just barely adequate or within a lower limit
"a bare majority"
"a marginal victory"
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