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. + prikaži više

ETYM Latin concisus cut off, short, p. p. of concidere to cut to pieces; con- + caedere to cut; perh. akin to scindere to cleave, and to Eng. shed, v. t.; cf. French concis.
Expressing much in few words.

ETYM Latin curtus; cf. Skr. kart to cut. Related to Curtail.
Characterized by excessive brevity; short; rudely concise.

(Homonym: lien).
1. Containing little excess; SYN. skimpy.
2. Not fat; skinny; trim.
3. Lacking in mineral content or combustible material.
4. Not profitable or prosperous.
5. (Metallurgy) Low in mineral content.

1. Limited in size or scope
2. Not wide
3. Very limited in degree

1. Not full, large, or plentiful; scarcely sufficient; meager; not enough.
2. Skimpy; parsimonious.

1. Somewhat less than is needed or wanted; insufficient; scant
2. Lacking size or extent; narrow; small; not abundant.

1. Deficient in quantity or number compared with the demand
2. Not enough; hard to find

Deficient in supply or execution especially through skimping; scanty

1. Severely concise; brief and sharp in tone.
2. Elegantly concise; free of superfluous words; polished to smoothness

By a small margin; SYN. hardly, just, scarcely, scarce.

In a concise manner; in a few words; SYN. briefly, shortly, in brief, in short.

In a curt, abrupt and discourteous manner; SYN. short, shortly.

In a sparse or scanty way; SYN. barely.

Barely, scarcely; scantily, in the manner of being in short supply

1. By a narrow margin; only just; almost not
2. Certainly not; probably not

In a skimpy manner.

Concisely, succinctly, curtly