Definition of "bare" in Anglais

adjective

1. Minimal; that is or are just sufficient.

   • a bare majority

2. Naked, uncovered.

3. Having no supplies.

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

4. Having no decoration.

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

5. Having had what usually covers (something) removed.

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

6. (MLE, MTE, Yorkshire, slang, not comparable) A lot or lots of.

   • It's taking bare time.

7. With head uncovered; bareheaded.

8. Without anything to cover up or conceal one's thoughts or actions; open to view; exposed.

9. (figuratively) Mere; without embellishment.

   • bare essentials; bare necessities

10. Threadbare, very worn.

11. Not insured.

adverb

1. (dialect) Barely.

2. (MLE, slang) Very; significantly.

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

3. (slang) Without a condom.

noun

1. (‘the bare’) The surface, the (bare) skin.

2. Surface; body; substance.

3. (architecture) That part of a roofing slate, shingle, tile, or metal plate, which is exposed to the weather.

verb

1. (transitive, sometimes figurative) To uncover; to reveal.

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

verb

1. (obsolete) simple past of bear