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bare essentials

bare essentials is the alternative form of bare necessities.

Meaning of bare necessities

Noun

bare necessities pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) The most basic items required in order to live or to do something.

Questions about bare essentials

What is bare essentials the alternative form of?
Bare essentials is the alternative form of bare necessities.

Words near bare essentials in the dictionary

  1. bare beaters
  2. bare beating
  3. bare board
  4. bare boards
  5. bare bones
  6. bare essentials
  7. bare hand
  8. bare handed
  9. bare handing
  10. bare hands
  11. bare in mind

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bare essentials (page history and authors); bare necessities (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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