leafless
Stripped of greenery
Leafless describes plants or branches without leaves—whether naturally bare, seasonally stripped, or dead: The leafless trees of winter stood stark against the gray sky.
The word applies literally to vegetation and occasionally figuratively to anything similarly stripped or bare.
bare
Wearing no garments
- strippedHad coverings removed
- denudedStripped of natural covering
- exposedOut in open
- skeletalOf or like bones
stark · barren · unadorned · uncovered · bald · defoliated · gaunt · spare
naked
Wearing no garments
skeletal · stark · barren · unadorned · uncovered · bald · defoliated · gaunt · spare · austere
barren
Unable to produce
grim · lonely · forsaken · windswept · withered · dead · dying · ghostly · haunting · eerie
deciduous
Sheds foliage seasonally
- dormantInactive but capable
- frostThin ice coating
- hibernationProlonged winter dormancy
branches · cold · frozen · icy · snowbound · arctic · frigid · bleak · wintry · frostbitten