barest

superlative form of bare: most bare

Adjective

  1. superlative form of bare: most bare
    • In 1963, there was even more of a shutdown [at Christmas]. The Western and London Midland Regions ran no trains, with the rest of the network having the "barest of skeleton services". The Daily Herald called Beeching's...

Origin

Etymology tree English bare Proto-Indo-European *-yōs Proto-Indo-European *-tHós Proto-Indo-European *-istHos Proto-Germanic *-istaz Proto-West Germanic *-ist Old English -est Middle English -est English -est English barest From bare + -est.

Verb

  1. second-person singular simple present indicative of bare
  2. second-person singular simple past indicative of bear