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BARE, NAKED, NUDE, BALD, BARREN mean deprived of naturally or conventionally appropriate covering.

BARE implies the removal of what is additional, superfluous, ornamental, or dispensable.

e.g. an apartment with bare walls

NAKED suggests absence of protective or ornamental covering but may imply a state of nature, of destitution, or of defenselessness.

e.g. poor half-naked children

NUDE applies especially to the unclothed human figure.

e.g. a nude model posing for art students

BALD implies actual or seeming absence of natural covering and may suggest a conspicuous bareness.

e.g. a bald mountain peak

BARREN often suggests aridity or impoverishment or sterility.

e.g. barren plains

1. (of land) too poor to produce much or any vegetation:

〈土地が〉不毛の, やせた(↔ fertile)

e.g. the plains of Kyrenia were barren

e.g. the barren, burnt-up countryside.

(of a tree or plant) not producing fruit or seed:

e.g. the barren fig tree.

showing no results or achievements; unproductive:

｟文｠ 〖通例名詞の前で〗無益な〈活動･計画など〉; 味気ない, 無味乾燥な, 魅力のない〈作品など〉

e.g. much of philosophy has been barren.

archaic (of a woman) unable to have children.

｟かたく/やや古｠ 〈女性･動物が〉不妊の; 〈草木が〉実を結ばない, 繁殖力のない

(of a female animal) not pregnant or unable to become so.

2. (of a place or building) bleak and lifeless:

〈部屋･場所が〉(家具･装飾がなく)物寂しい

e.g. the sports hall turned out to be a rather barren concrete building.

empty of meaning or value:

e.g. those young heads were stuffed with barren facts.

(barren of) devoid of:

〖be ～〗 «…が» ない, 欠けた «of» .

e.g. the room was barren of furniture.

noun (usually barrens) mainly North American

a barren tract or tracts of land:

〖通例～s〗 (低木と砂地の)不毛の土地

e.g. crossing the barrens was no easy feat.

barrenly adverb

barrenness |ˈberənˌnəs| noun

Middle English: from Old French barhaine, of unknown origin.