bare
/bɛɹ/ adjective B1- Minimal; that is or are just sufficient. · a bare majority
- Naked, uncovered.
- Having no supplies. · a room bare of furniture· The cupboard was bare.
- Having no decoration. · The walls of this room are bare — why not hang some paintings on them?
- Having had what usually covers (something) removed. · The trees were left bare after the swarm of locusts devoured all the leaves.
- A lot or lots of. · It's taking bare time.
- With head uncovered; bareheaded.
- Without anything to cover up or conceal one's thoughts or actions; open to view; exposed.
Comparative barer · Superlative barest
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As they were on the bare plowlands, eating there wheat-stocks and roots pulled up from the hedgerow, the Town Mouse said to his friend, “You live here the life of the ants, while in my house is the horn of plenty.
I prefer my bare plowlands and roots from the hedgerow, where I can live in safety, and without fear.”
The whitewashed walls were so painfully bare and staring that she thought they must ache over their own bareness.
The floor was bare, too, except for a round braided mat in the middle such as Anne had never seen before.
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