Bare and Strict

Bare

Bare adjective - Being this and no more.

Strict and bare are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Strict" instead an adjective "Bare".

Nearby Words: barely, bared, bareness

Strict

Strict adjective - Following an original exactly.

Bare and strict are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Bare" instead an adjective "Strict".

Nearby Words: strictly, strictness

Both words in one sentence

  • Fingerless Gloves Street punks, mutants, hardened mercenaries, evil magic clowns — Paragon City apparently has a strict "no bare hands" dress code.note This is actually an artistic/psychological trick to cover up technical limitations in the game engine.
  • London Gangster He'll tend to prefer roughing people up with his bare hands to using guns (gun control being very strict in the UK), but Cold-Blooded Torture isn't at all out of the question and the really nasty ones in fiction have a tendency to be Knife Nuts.
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