adjective barer bar′er, barest bar′·est

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

Etymology: ME bar < OE bær < IE *bhoso-s < ? base *bhes-, to rub off > sand

transitive verb bared, baring bar′·ing