bare
Minimal; that is or are just sufficient.
Adjective 4 meanings
Minimal; that is or are just sufficient.
“a bare majority”
Naked, uncovered.
Having no supplies.
“a room bare of furniture”
Having no decoration.
“The walls of this room are bare — why not hang some paintings on them?”
Noun 3 meanings
The surface, the (bare) skin.
Surface; body; substance.
That part of a roofing slate, shingle, tile, or metal plate, which is exposed to the weather.
Verb 1 meaning
To uncover; to reveal.
“She bared her teeth at him.”
Etymology
From Middle English bare, bar, from Old English bær (“bare, naked, open”), from Proto-West Germanic *baʀ, from Proto-Germanic *bazaz (“bare, naked”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰosós, from *bʰos- (“bare, barefoot”).
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BARE at a glance
BARE has 4 letters and scores 6 points in Scrabble (B 3 + A 1 + R 1 + E 1) and 7 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #5,201 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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