ETYM Old Eng. bar, bare, AS. baer; akin to Dutch and German baar, Old High Germ. par, Icel. berr, Swed. and Dan. bar, Old Slav. bosu barefoot, Lith. basas; cf. Skr. bhâs to shine.
(Homonym: bear).
1. Completely unclothed; SYN. au naturel, naked, nude.
2. Denuded of leaves.
3. Apart from anything else; without additions or modifications; SYN. mere, simple.
4. Having extraneous everything removed including contents; SYN. stripped.
5. Just barely adequate or within a lower limit; SYN. marginal.
6. Lacking a surface finish such as paint; SYN. unfinished.
7. Lacking in amplitude or quantity; SYN. scanty, spare.
8. Providing no shelter or sustenance; SYN. barren, bleak, desolate, stark.
9. Showing ground without the usual covering of grass.

To lay bare

Množina: bare boards

A circuit board with no chips on it; most commonly, a memory board not populated with memory chips.

Purely functional; stripped or otherwise clean of features. Bare bones applications provide only the most basic functions necessary to perform a given task. By the same token, a bare bones computer provides a minimal amount of hardware or is sold at retail with no peripherals and just the operating system (and no other software).

Singular of bare bones is bare bone.

The barest essentials, facts, or elements

Množina: bare bones

1. An application that provides only the most basic functions necessary to perform a given task.
2. A computer consisting only of motherboard (equipped with CPU and RAM), cabinet, power supply, floppy disk drive, and keyboard, to which the user must add hard disk, video adapter, monitor, and any other peripherals. See also motherboard, peripheral.

Množina: bare floors

Množina: bare majorities

Množina: bare of contentions

Singular of bare walls is bare wall.

Množina: bare wires

(Used informally) Completely unclothed; SYN. bare-ass, in the altogether, in the buff, in the raw, raw, peeled, naked as a jaybird, stark naked.