Nouns (0)
Verbs (9)
lay bare
v. lay bare; "bare your breasts"; "bare your feelings"
air, publicize, publicise
v. make public; "She aired her opinions on welfare"
strip, clear, denude, denudate, lay bare
v. remove; "clear the leaves from the lawn"; "Clear snow from the road"
Adverbs (0)
Adjectives (20)
bare
adj. lacking its natural or customary covering; "a bare hill"; "bare feet"
bare
adj. lacking its natural or customary covering; "a bare hill"; "bare feet"
stripped
adj. having everything extraneous removed including contents; "the bare walls"; "the cupboard was bare"
unfinished
adj. lacking a surface finish such as paint; "bare wood"; "unfinished furniture"
unsheathed
adj. not having a protective covering; "unsheathed cables"; "a bare blade"
narrow
adj. just barely adequate or within a lower limit; "a bare majority"; "a marginal victory"
spare, scanty, scant
adj. lacking in amplitude or quantity; "a bare livelihood"; "a scanty harvest"; "a spare diet"
nude, naked, au naturel
adj. completely unclothed; "bare bodies"; "naked from the waist up"; "a nude model"
barren, desolate, bleak
adj. providing no shelter or sustenance; "bare rocky hills"; "barren lands"; "the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes"; "the desolate surface of the moon"; "a stark landscape"
bald, denudate, denuded
adj. without the natural or usual covering; "a bald spot on the lawn"; "bare hills"
mere, simple
adj. unornamented; "a simple country schoolhouse"; "her black dress--simple to austerity"
Fuzzynyms (120)
show, make noticeable, make visible, cause to appear, cause to be seen
v. make visible or noticeable; "She showed her talent for cooking"; "Show me your etchings, please"
blazon, emblazon, decorate with heraldic arms
v. decorate with heraldic arms
spread, circulate, go around
v. become widely known and passed on; "the rumor spread"; "the story went around in the office"
publicize, advertise, advertize, call attention to
v. call attention to; "Please don't advertise the fact that he has AIDS"
strip, undress, discase, uncase, unclothe, disrobe, strip down
v. get undressed; "please don't undress in front of everybody!"; "She strips in front of strangers every night for a living"
strip, deprive, divest, dispossess
v. take away possessions from someone; "The Nazis stripped the Jews of all their assets"
free, rid, disembarrass
v. relieve from; "Rid the house of pests"
take off, doff
v. remove clothes; "take off your shirt--it's very hot in here"
drop
v. change from one level to another; "She dropped into army jargon"
nude, bare, naked, au naturel
adj. completely unclothed; "bare bodies"; "naked from the waist up"; "a nude model"
scarce
adj. deficient in quantity or number compared with the demand; "fresh vegetables were scarce during the drought"
scotch, sparing, economical, frugal, stinting
adj. avoiding waste; "an economical meal"; "an economical shopper"; "a frugal farmer"; "a frugal lunch"; "a sparing father and a spending son"; "sparing in their use of heat and light"; "stinting in bestowing gifts"; "thrifty because they remember the great Depression"; "`scotch' is used only informally"
lean, skimpy
adj. containing little excess; "a lean budget"; "a skimpy allowance"
Spartan
adj. of or relating to or characteristic of Sparta or its people
short, inadequate, poor
adj. not sufficient to meet a need; "an inadequate income"; "a poor salary"; "money is short"; "on short rations"; "food is in short supply"; "short on experience"
thin, sparse
adj. not dense; "a thin beard"; "trees were sparse"
small, little
adj. limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent; "a little dining room"; "a little house"; "a small car"; "a little (or small) group"
lean
adj. containing little excess; "a lean budget"; "a skimpy allowance"
bare, stripped
adj. having everything extraneous removed including contents; "the bare walls"; "the cupboard was bare"
bony, wasted, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal
adj. very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold; "emaciated bony hands"; "a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys"; "eyes were haggard and cavernous"; "small pinched faces"; "kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration"
absolute, rank, gross, perfect, utter, sheer, pure, stark, arrant, double-dyed, out-and-out, sodding, staring
adj. without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers; "an arrant fool"; "a complete coward"; "a consummate fool"; "a double-dyed villain"; "gross negligence"; "a perfect idiot"; "pure folly"; "what a sodding mess"; "stark staring mad"; "a thoroughgoing villain"; "utter nonsense"; "the unadulterated truth"
single, sole, separate, solitary, lonely, lonesome, only, alone, lone
adj. characterized by or preferring solitude; "a lone wolf"; "a lonely existence"; "a man of a solitary disposition"; " a solitary walk"
unadorned, undecorated
adj. not decorated with something to increase its beauty or distinction
basic, fundamental, ultimate, elemental
adj. furthest or highest in degree or order; utmost or extreme; "the ultimate achievement"; "the ultimate question"; "man's ultimate destiny"; "the ultimate insult"; "one's ultimate goal in life"
plain, simple, modest, unostentatious
adj. free from pomp or affectation; "comfortable but modest cottages"; "a simple rectangular brick building"; "a simple man with simple tastes"
plain, patent, manifest, clear, evident, apparent
adj. clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment; "the effects of the drought are apparent to anyone who sees the parched fields"; "evident hostility"; "manifest disapproval"; "patent advantages"; "made his meaning plain"; "it is plain that he is no reactionary"; "in plain view"
Spartan
adj. of or relating to or characteristic of Sparta or its people
absolute, rank, gross, perfect, utter, sheer, pure, stark, arrant, double-dyed, out-and-out, sodding, staring
adj. without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers; "an arrant fool"; "a complete coward"; "a consummate fool"; "a double-dyed villain"; "gross negligence"; "a perfect idiot"; "pure folly"; "what a sodding mess"; "stark staring mad"; "a thoroughgoing villain"; "utter nonsense"; "the unadulterated truth"
vernacular, common, vulgar, nonliterary
adj. being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language; "common parlance"; "a vernacular term"; "vernacular speakers"; "the vulgar tongue of the masses"; "the technical and vulgar names for an animal species"
ordinary
adj. not exceptional in any way especially in quality or ability or size or degree; "ordinary everyday objects"; "ordinary decency"; "an ordinary day"; "an ordinary wine"
Synonyms (86)
aphyllous
adj. having no leaves
defoliate, defoliated
adj. deprived of leaves
scapose
adj. resembling or consisting of a scape; having a bare leafless stalk growing directly from the ground; "tulips are scapose flowers"; "a scapose stalk"; "a scapose column"; "the scapose portion of a feather"
barren of, devoid of, innocent of, destitute of, void of, empty of
adj. completely wanting or lacking: "writing barren of insight"; "young recruits destitute of experience"; "a novel devoid of wit and inventiveness"; "a life empty of happiness"; "innocent of literary merit"; "void of understanding"
bereft of, deprived of
adj. having had something taken away: "bereft of their dignity"
blank
adj. (of a surface) not written or printed on; "blank pages"; "fill in the blank spaces"; "a clean page"; "wide white margins"
drained
adj. emptied or exhausted of (as by drawing off e.g. water or other liquid); "a drained marsh"; "a drained tank"; "a drained and apathetic old man...not caring any longer about anything"
emptied
adj. (empty)
empty-handed
adj. carrying nothing in the hands
glassy, glazed
adj. (used of eyes) lacking liveliness; "empty eyes"; "a glassy stare"; "his eyes were glazed over with boredom"
pillaged, looted, plundered, ransacked
adj. wrongfully emptied or stripped of anything of value; "the robbers left the looted train"; "people returned to the plundered village"
unoccupied, unfilled, vacant
adj. without an occupant or incumbent; "the throne is never vacant"
vacant
adj. void of thought or knowledge; "a vacant mind"
void
adj. containing nothing; "the earth was without form, and void"
unstained, unvarnished, unoiled
adj. not having a coating of stain or varnish
unrouged
adj. not wearing rouge; "unrouged lips"
enough, adequate
adj. enough to meet a purpose; "an adequate income"; "the food was adequate"; "a decent wage"; "enough food"; "food enough"
spare
adj. kept in reserve especially for emergency use; "a reserve supply of food"; "a spare tire"; "spare parts"
decent, comfortable
adj. sufficient to provide comfort; "a comfortable salary"
exiguous
adj. extremely scanty; "an exiguous budget"
hardscrabble, marginal
adj. of a bare living gained by great labor; "the sharecropper's hardscrabble life"; "a marginal existence"
measly, miserable, paltry
adj. contemptibly small in amount; "a measly tip"; "the company donated a miserable $100 for flood relief"; "a paltry wage"; "almost depleted his miserable store of dried beans"
bareheaded, bared
adj. having the head uncovered; "caught bareheaded by the downpour"; "with bared head"
bare-legged, barelegged
adj. having the legs uncovered by clothing; "barelegged children on the beach"
clothesless, garmentless, raimentless
adj. possessing no clothing
in dishabille, en dishabille
adj. partly dressed in a loose or careless manner
exposed, uncovered
adj. not covered with clothing; "her exposed breast"
half-clothed, underclothed, scantily clad
adj. inadequately clothed
seminude
adj. partially clothed
starkers
adj. (British informal) stark naked
stripped
adj. with clothing stripped off
unappareled, unattired, unclad, undressed, ungarbed, ungarmented
adj. having removed clothing
without a stitch
adj. without any clothing at all
cool, unfriendly
adj. very unfavorable to life or growth; "a hostile climate"; "an uncongenial atmosphere"; "an uncongenial soil"; "the unfriendly environment at high altitudes"
hostile
adj. very unfavorable to life or growth; "a hostile climate"; "an uncongenial atmosphere"; "an uncongenial soil"; "the unfriendly environment at high altitudes"
windswept
adj. open to or swept by wind; "windswept headlands"
undraped
adj. (uncovered)
unroofed
adj. having no roof; "an unroofed shed"
austere, severe, chaste
adj. severely simple; "a stark interior"
featureless
adj. lacking distinguishing characteristics or features; "the featureless landscape of the steppe"
inelaborate, unelaborate
adj. not elaborate; lacking rich or complex detail
literal, pure and simple
adj. avoiding embellishment or exaggeration (used for emphasis); "it's the literal truth"
simple
adj. unornamented; "a simple country schoolhouse"; "her black dress--simple to austerity"
trim, tailored
adj. severely simple in line or design; "a neat tailored suit"; "tailored curtains"
Antonyms (10)
cover
v. provide with a covering or cause to be covered; "cover her face with a handkerchief"; "cover the child with a blanket"; "cover the grave with flowers"
hide, conceal
v. prevent from being seen or discovered; "Muslim women hide their faces"; "hide the money"
dress
v. put a dressing on; "dress the salads"
full, filled
adj. containing as much or as many as is possible or normal; "a full glass"; "a sky full of stars"; "a full life"; "the auditorium was full to overflowing"
sheathed
adj. enclosed in a protective covering; sometimes used in combination; "his sheathed sword"; "the cat's sheathed claws"; "a ship's bottom sheathed in copper"; "copper-sheathed"
sufficient
adj. of a quantity that can fulfill a need or requirement but without being abundant; "sufficient food"
clothed
adj. wearing or provided with clothing; sometimes used in combination; "clothed and in his right mind"- Bible; "proud of her well-clothed family"; "nurses clad in white"; "white-clad nurses"
fancy
adj. not plain; decorative or ornamented; "fancy handwriting"; "fancy clothes"
bare
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