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ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Adj
Pronunciation: /bɛə/
Pronunciation (ENPR): bâr

Definition 1:
• Minimal; that is or are just sufficient.
Example: a bare majority
Wiktionary-listed synonyms: mere, minimal
Wiktionary-listed antonyms: ample, plentiful, sufficient

Definition 2:
• Naked, uncovered.
Wiktionary-listed synonyms: exposed, naked, nude, uncovered, undressed
Wiktionary-listed antonyms: covered, covered up, dressed, unexposed

Definition 3:
• Having no supplies.
Example: a room bare of furniture
Example: The cupboard was bare.
Wiktionary-listed synonyms: empty, unfurnished, unstocked, unsupplied
Wiktionary-listed antonyms: full, furnished, stocked, supply, supplied, well-stocked

Definition 4:
• Having no decoration.
Example: The walls of this room are bare — why not hang some paintings on them?
Wiktionary-listed synonyms: empty, plain, unadorned, undecorated, austere, bare, chaste, inornate, modest, quiet, severe, simple, spartan, unembellished, unextravagant, unornamented, undecked, ungarnished, untrimmed, unvarnished
Wiktionary-listed antonyms: adorned, decorated, ornate, bedizened, blatant, blingish, brash, campy, catchpenny, chichi, chintzy, corny, crass, crude, flashy, flaunting, florid, flossy, froufrou, garish, gauche, gaudy, gay, glaring, gross, gussied up, hideous, kitsch, kitschy, loud, meretricious, naff, obtrusive, ostentatious, pimped out, pizazzy, pretentious, ritzy, raffish, schlocky, showy, snazzy, splendiferous, tacky, tasteless, tawdry, tinselly, too much, trinkety, unbecoming, untasteful, vain, whorish, zesty

Definition 5:
• Having had what usually covers (something) removed.
Example: The trees were left bare after the swarm of locusts devoured all the leaves.
Wiktionary-listed synonyms: despoiled, stripped, uncovered
Wiktionary-listed antonyms: covered

Definition 6:
• A lot or lots of.
Example: It's taking bare time.
Labels: Multicultural-London-English, Yorkshire, not-comparable, slang

Definition 7:
• With head uncovered; bareheaded.
Wiktionary-listed synonyms: uncovered

Definition 8:
• Without anything to cover up or conceal one's thoughts or actions; open to view; exposed.
Wiktionary-listed synonyms: apparent, displayed, bare, distinct, evident, exposed, certain, clear, indubitable, manifest, notorious, obvious, plain, unconcealed, visible
Wiktionary-listed antonyms: concealed, obscured, covered, dark, dern, hidden, invisible, inward, latent, nondisplayed, obfuscated, obfuscatory, obscure, occluded, occulted, private, recondite, secluded, secret, secreted, silent, snug, tect, unapparent, underground, undisclosed, veiled

Definition 9:
• Mere; without embellishment.
Example: bare essentials; bare necessities
Wiktionary-listed synonyms: alone, simple, only, very, bare, just, mere
Labels: figuratively

Definition 10:
• Threadbare, very worn.
Wiktionary-listed synonyms: shabby, worn-out

Definition 11:
• Not insured.
Wiktionary-listed synonyms: noninsured, uninsured
Adv
Pronunciation: /bɛə/
Pronunciation (ENPR): bâr

Definition 1:
• Barely.
Labels: dialectal

Definition 2:
• Very; significantly.
Example: That pissed me off bare.
Example: That's bare stupid.
Labels: Multicultural-London-English, slang

Definition 3:
• Without a condom.
Labels: slang
Name

Definition 1:
• A surname.
Labels: countable, uncountable

Definition 2:
• A suburb of Morecambe, Lancaster district, Lancashire, England, served by Bare Lane railway station (OS grid ref SD4564).
Labels: countable, uncountable
Noun
Pronunciation: /bɛə/
Pronunciation (ENPR): bâr

Definition 1:
• The surface, the (bare) skin.
Labels: with the

Definition 2:
• Surface; body; substance.

Definition 3:
• That part of a roofing slate, shingle, tile, or metal plate, which is exposed to the weather.
Labels: architecture
Verb
Pronunciation: /bɛə/
Pronunciation (ENPR): bâr

Definition 1:
• To uncover; to reveal.
Example: She bared her teeth at him.
Example: The tabloid newspaper promised to bare all.
Labels: figuratively, sometimes, transitive
Verb
Pronunciation: /bɛə/
Pronunciation (ENPR): bâr

Definition 1:
• simple past of bear
Labels: form-of, obsolete, past

Source and attribution
Wiktionary contributors, via Kaikki/Wiktextract. Derived from Wiktionary; CC BY-SA and GFDL terms apply. Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bare