bare-assed

Questions about bare-assed

What does bare-assed mean?

bare-assed means "(used informally) completely unclothed".

How many syllables are in bare-assed?

bare-assed has 3 syllables and divides as ba-re-as-sed under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for bare-assed?

Close synonyms include bare-ass, in the altogether, in the buff, in the raw, raw. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bare-assed a common word?

bare-assed is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.