bare

• a bare majority
• Nature indeed furnishes us with the bare necessaries of life, but traffic gives us a great variety of what is useful - 1711 May 29 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison], “FRIDAY, May 19, 1711”, in The Spectator, number...

Synonyms: mere minimal

Antonyms: ample plentiful sufficient

• "I refuse to show myself out of doors in my bare feet," the Centipede said. "I have to get my boots on again first." - 1961, Roald Dahl, James and the Giant Peach, Knopf, page 46:

Synonyms: exposed naked nude uncovered undressed

Antonyms: covered covered up dressed unexposed

• a room bare of furniture
• The cupboard was bare.
• 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 stripped...

Synonyms: empty unfurnished unstocked unsupplied

Antonyms: full furnished stocked supply supplied well-stocked

• The walls of this room are bare — why not hang some paintings on them?

Synonyms: empty plain unadorned undecorated austere bare chaste inornate modest quiet severe simple spartan unembellished unextravagant unornamented undecked ungarnished untrimmed unvarnished

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

• The trees were left bare after the swarm of locusts devoured all the leaves.

Synonyms: despoiled stripped uncovered

Antonyms: covered

• It's taking bare time.
• The phone would answer, we'd go round the corner, pass something to someone, go back and we'd have bare dough, we'd have bare money in our pocket. - 2005 July 13, Ryan, quotee, “‘We like the easy money. We like the...
• You shagged bare lads, you're a little sket / Have you heard your bars? They're fucking pept - 2016 December 3, Millie B, “Soph Aspin Send”, performed by Millie B:

• When once thy foot enters the church, be bare. / God is more there, then thou: for thou art there / Onely by his permiſſion. - [1633], George Herbert, “The Church-porch”, in [Nicholas Ferrar], editor, The Temple. Sacred...

Synonyms: uncovered

• Bare in thy guilt how foul muſt thou appear? - 1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […].”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey...

Synonyms: apparent displayed bare distinct evident exposed certain clear indubitable manifest notorious obvious plain unconcealed visible

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

• bare essentials; bare necessities
• Those who lent him money lent it on no security but his bare word. - 1848, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, Chapter XII:

Synonyms: alone simple only very bare just mere

• for it appears, by their bare liveries, that they live by your bare words. - c. 1590–1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies...

Synonyms: shabby worn-out

• Before the company was formed, the firm went bare for about three months in 1985, but it now has prior acts coverage for that time. - 1987 December 1, ABA Journal, page 86:
• That a firm chooses to go bare has no effect on whether it gets sued or not. - 1994, David S. Haviland, The Architect's Handbook of Professional Practice, page 310:

Synonyms: noninsured uninsured

• The fiend had bare departed when Ailie came over the threshold to find the auld carline glunching over the fire. - 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
• He finally came back to himself and asked why the furor. "Why," Lucy said, "because this is Christmas Eve. We have bare enough time to get ready for the ball, after dinner, as it is." - 2009, Allan Cole with Chris...
• “I've bare enough for these two, much less fill your belly.” - 2011, Elizabeth Vaughan, Warprize:

• That pissed me off bare.
• That's bare stupid.

• While none of the participants had complete confidence in condoms, they continued to use them as a better alternative than “going in bare". - 2000, Northeast African Studies - Volume 7, page 119:
• It would be fine to have these women bare, without condoms. - 2002, The Society of Malawi Journal - Volumes 55-58, page 70:
• I like to go bare. I don't like wearing condoms, actually I hate 'em. - 2010, M. L. Matthews, I Am Not the Father: Narratives of Men Falsely Accused of Paternity, →ISBN:

• In sad good earnest, sir, you have toucht the very bare of naked truth [...] - 1599, John Marston, Antonio and Mellida:
• Vancha clasped the bare of my neck and squeezed amiably. - 2002, Darren Shan, Hunters of the dusk: 7:

• You have touched the very bare of naked truth. - c. 1599 (date written), I. M. [i.e., John Marston], The History of Antonio and Mellida. The First Part. […], London: […] [Richard Bradock] for Mathewe Lownes, and Thomas...

• She bared her teeth at him.
• The tabloid newspaper promised to bare all.

• And the children of the Levites bare the ark of God upon their shoulders with the staves thereon - 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Chronicles 15:15:
• And so I put thee on my shoulder and bare 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 - [1898], J[ohn] Meade Falkner, Moonfleet, London; Toronto, Ont.:...