Qualities
Synonyms for bare
Synonyms for bare: stripped, unsheathed, bleak and spare. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 4 synonyms for bare
Interchangeable with bare, one per sense
Audited under bare's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one bare carries in that sense.
- strippedadjective, in the sense "having everything extraneous removed including contents"
- unsheathedadjective, in the sense "not having a protective covering"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name bare as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
The first group is filed under bare's own senses. The second reach bare from the partner word's entry, so the sense quoted beside them is that word's.
having everything extraneous removed including contents
The bare walls.
The true synonym
stripped
Same sentence, swapped: The stripped walls.
Close but different
Distractors, not synonyms. This entry has no written reason line yet, so read them against the sentence and the sense above.
- neat
- hard
- single
not having a protective covering
A bare blade.
The true synonym
unsheathed
Same sentence, swapped: A unsheathed blade.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for bare in the sentence quoted.
- mere
- stark
- sheathed
Where bare turns up in the game
bare is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across two difficulty tiers. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in seven other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
4 of the 7 puzzles where bare is the trap
- exhaustedadjective, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is gone, in the sense "drained of energy or effectiveness", so bare is there to be ruled out.
- exhaustedadjective, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is spent, in the sense "depleted of energy, force, or strength", so bare is there to be ruled out.
- airverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is vent, in the sense "expose to cool or cold air so as to cool or freshen", and bare is on the board beside it.
- manifestverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is evidence, in the sense "provide evidence for", with bare sitting one tile away.
Play bare
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so bare reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
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