barest

adjective barer, barest

1. 1. without the natural or customary covering: bare wooden floors
   2. without clothing; naked: bare legs
2. without equipment, supplies, or furnishings; empty: a bare room, a bare larder
3. without embellishment; unadorned; simple; plain: the bare facts
4. without tools or weapons: obsolete except in bare hands
5. threadbare
6. no more than; mere: a bare subsistence wage

transitive verb bared, baring