barest

ADJECTIVE

without clothing

Synonyms

STRONGEST

bald exposed naked uncovered

STRONG

denuded disrobed divested peeled stripped unclad unclothed undressed

WEAK

bareskinned in one's birthday suit nude shorn unrobed

Antonyms

STRONGEST

private secret

WEAK

adorned clothed covered decorated full robed

ADJECTIVE

without covering or content

Synonyms

STRONGEST

arid barren bleak desolate empty stark vacant

STRONG

blank clear desert lacking mean open void wanting

WEAK

poor scanty scarce unfurnished vacuous

Antonyms

STRONGEST

cheerful filled full productive

STRONG

ambiguous blocked closed occupied sufficient unclear vague

WEAK

adorned clothed covered decorated robed

ADJECTIVE

simple, unadorned

Synonyms

STRONGEST

bald cold meager mere stark

STRONG

blunt scant sheer spare

WEAK

austere basic chaste essential hard literal modest severe simple unembellished unornamented

Antonyms

STRONG

thick

WEAK

adorned clothed covered decorated full robed

Example Sentences

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Why, thou cowardly knave, no stronger than a duck, Barest thou try masteries with me a-pluck.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 1 by Hazlitt, William Carew

Ho! fool and villain!" he exclaimed, "Barest thou to think such dainties are for thee?

From The Roman Traitor, Vol. 2 by Herbert, Henry William

Barest thou to my face say thou art I?

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 by Hazlitt, William Carew

Now tell me, Hagen, / upon whose command Barest thou thus to journey / hither to this land, And knowest well what sorrow / through thee my heart must bear.

From The Nibelungenlied Translated into Rhymed English Verse in the Metre of the Original by Needler, George Henry