bare
completely unclothed
How often you will meet it
Rank 1,434 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 12,780 times across 175,113 chapters — 0.006% of every word in the library.
What it means
adjective
- completely unclothed also: au naturel, naked, nude bare bodiesnaked from the waist up
- lacking in magnitude or quantity also: scanty, spare a bare livelihooda scanty harvest
- not having a protective covering also: unsheathed unsheathed cablesa bare blade
- lacking its natural or customary covering a bare hillbare feet
- just barely adequate or within a lower limit also: marginal a bare majoritya marginal victory
- apart from anything else; without additions or modifications also: mere, simple only the bare factsshocked by the mere idea
bare in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Glove of black in white hand bare From the Swedish and Danish.
The Complete Poetical Works of Henry · Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · Chapter 1
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But the world might guess it, and I will not bare my soul to their shallow prying eyes.
The Picture of Dorian Gray · Oscar Wilde · Chapter 1
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While the tree are leafless, While the fields are bare, Buttercups and daisies Spring up here and there.
Poems Every Child Should Know · Mary E. (Mary Elizabeth) [Editor] Burt · Chapter 1
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Great men sell sheep, thus to be cut in pieces, When first they have shorn them bare, and sold their fleeces.
The White Devil · John Webster · Chapter 1
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A bare pack-horse road wound its way on the west, and stretched out of sight to the north and to the south.
The Shadow of a Crime: A Cumbrian Romance · Hall, Sir Caine · Chapter 1