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--adj. 3 uncivilized, uncultivated, uncultured, philistine,
savage; barbarous, barbaric, coarse, vulgar, uncouth, rude;
boorish, loutish, oafish, crude, rough, insensitive, churlish,
uncivil: One sees a great deal of barbarian behaviour every
day.
barbarity n. cruelty, inhumanity, ruthlessness, savagery, brutishness,
barbarousness, heartlessness, viciousness, cold-bloodedness,
bloodthirstiness: The barbarity of this mass murderer cannot be
overstated.
bare adj. 1 unclothed, naked, nude, stark naked, unclad, exposed,
uncovered, hatless, unshod, undressed , Brit starkers; Colloq in
the altogether, in one's birthday suit, in the buff; Slang US
bare-ass: He stood completely bare in the middle of the room.
2 unconcealed, undisguised, open, revealed, literal, bald,
manifest, out-and-out, overt, uncovered, straightforward,
direct, unvarnished, unembellished, cold, hard, plain,
unadorned, basic, simple: The bare facts point to him as the
culprit. 3 unfurnished, undecorated, vacant, stripped, empty:
The landlord entered and found a bare flat - the tenants had
done a moonlight flit. 4 denuded, stripped, leafless,
defoliated, shorn, barren; bared: After the storm the trees
were entirely bare of foliage. The hurricane began blowing in
earnest, and the little ketch was driving forward under bare
poles. 5 plain, mere, simple, minimal, essential, absolute,
basic; meagre, scant, scanty: For years we scraped by with only
the bare necessities of life.
--v. 6 expose, lay bare, uncover, reveal, open; undress,
unveil: The torrential rain had washed away the soil, baring
the clay and rock beneath. He tore off his shirt, baring his
hairy chest. 7 disclose, reveal, lay bare, uncover, divulge,
unfold, tell, expose, unmask, bring to light: Because of the
way he had treated her, she decided to bare his secrets to the
police. Benson bares his soul in his book. 8 strip, divest,
denude; defoliate: The autumn winds bared all the trees in the
arboretum.
barefaced adj. 1 unconcealed, open, undisguised, blatant, manifest,
unmitigated, outright, downright, out-and-out, sheer, unalloyed,
undiluted: His proposal is a barefaced attempt to gain control
of the committee. 2 audacious, impudent, shameless, insolent,