Usually means: Least adorned; most simple form.
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  1. barest: Merriam-Webster
  2. barest: Collins English Dictionary
  3. barest: Vocabulary.com
  4. barest: Wordnik
  5. barest: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. barest: Wiktionary
  7. barest: Dictionary.com
  8. barest: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. barest: TheFreeDictionary.com
  10. barest: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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  1. barest: Legal dictionary

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  1. barest: Medical dictionary

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  1. barest: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Bare)

adjective:  Minimal; that is or are just sufficient.
adjective:  Naked, uncovered.
adjective:  Having no supplies.
adjective:  Having no decoration.
adjective:  Having had what usually covers (something) removed.
adjective:  (MLE, MTE, Yorkshire, slang, not comparable) A lot or lots of.
adjective:  With head uncovered; bareheaded.
adjective:  Without anything to cover up or conceal one's thoughts or actions; open to view; exposed.
adjective:  (figuratively) Mere; without embellishment.
adjective:  Threadbare, very worn.
adjective:  Not insured.
adverb:  (dialect) Barely.
adverb:  (MLE, slang) Very; significantly.
adverb:  (slang) Without a condom.
noun:  (‘the bare’) The surface, the (bare) skin.
noun:  Surface; body; substance.
noun:  (architecture) That part of a roofing slate, shingle, tile, or metal plate, which is exposed to the weather.
verb:  (transitive, sometimes figurative) To uncover; to reveal.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  A suburb of Morecambe, Lancaster district, Lancashire, England, served by Bare Lane railway station (OS grid ref SD4564).
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