Skip to main content
bare-breasted

bare-breasted

2 7.3
Not wearing clothing over the breasts
  • adjective
  • /ˈbɛrˈbrɛstɪd/
  • NSFW
translation icon : desnuda
  • While men usually wear a length of tradestore cloth wrapped around the hips or a ragged pair of shorts, most women continue to go bare-breasted and wear skirts of shredded coconut leaf.
  • bare-breasted woman
  • bare-breasted female

Examples

  • Here, it is the old women who move, bare-breasted, through the fields.

    Fiction book (2000)
  • One, probably a young Moon Goddess, emphasizes a voluptuous, youthful figure, often bare-breasted.

    Academic text (2009)
  • Yet Ovahimba women, for example, go bare-breasted in winter and summer and have built a whole culture of body and hair ornamentation and music around that practice.

    Academic text (2000)
  • Like Gropper's illustration, Gellert's workers are bare-breasted to reveal their strength and are engaged in quiet concentration on their task.

    Academic text (2002)
  • "C'mon," Trish says to Cindy and Kimberly, and the three of them squeeze by Bobbi, who's still bare-breasted.

    Fiction book (1996)
  • Black-and-white photographs of bare-breasted Native women in Burnett's books illustrate and offset his sophisticated, elaborate, and scientific-sounding prose.

    Academic text (2014)
  • The first (Figure 1.6, p. 39) appears initially to be a relatively conventional rendering of the primitive: a bare-breasted young black woman is posed against a background of thatch and mud huts.

    Academic text (1991)
  • The women in these photographs would have worn modern dress by the time Burnett arrived, but he indulges his readers' fantasies by presenting posed, bare-breasted, grass-skirted women as if they were contemporary.

    Academic text (2014)
  • The festival featured women dancing bare-breasted to celebrate their cultural heritage.

  • In the warm sunlight, she basked in the beauty of nature, bare-breasted and free.

Synonyms

topless
vsbare-breasted
  • NSFW
43 6.2

Not wearing clothes on the upper body, with the breasts uncovered

is used only for women and focuses on breasts being uncovered
shirtless
vsbare-breasted
28 1.8

Not wearing a shirt

refers specifically to women with breasts uncovered rather than any upper body nakedness

Antonyms

1 1.0

Having something on top or around it

1 1.0

Wearing clothes to cover the body

How Exposed

bare-breasted
  • NSFW
2 7.3
topless
  • NSFW
43 6.2

Surface Forms

bare-breasted positive

Morphology

bare-breasted = bare + breasted (transparent) = bare + breast + ed

A straightforward compound of 'bare' + 'breasted' (where 'breasted' = 'having breasts'), so the meaning 'having the breasts uncovered' is directly deducible.

Etymology

Bare-breasted is simply two words put together: bare means 'naked' and breast means 'the chest', so bare-breasted describes a woman who has her breasts uncovered.