Bare: Definition and part of speech

Bare

  1. n. That part of a roofing slate, shingle, tile, or metal plate, which is exposed to the weather.
  2. a. Without clothes or covering; stripped of the usual covering; naked; as, his body is bare; the trees are bare.
  3. a. With head uncovered; bareheaded.
  4. a. Without anything to cover up or conceal one’s thoughts or actions; open to view; exposed.
  5. a. Plain; simple; unadorned; without polish; bald; meager.
  6. a. 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.
  7. a. Threadbare; much worn.
  8. a. Mere; alone; unaccompanied by anything else; as, a bare majority.
  9. n. Surface; body; substance.
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The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.