naked
- adjective
- /ˈneɪ.kɪd/
- NSFW
- Next to them visually stood the Waodani warrior: naked, powerful, serious, and enigmatic.
But for my everyday natural, this is my naked face feeling.
- But for my everyday natural, this is my naked face feeling.
- I have seen how many bare naked hands touch all these garments.
Examples
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Now, at low tide, the shelf shouldered high up, the black rock showing naked and strange.
Fiction book (1992) -
On this side, there is no ceiling really, only naked wood, the unvarnished belly of the first floor.
Fiction book (1991) -
And there we go, a naked room, a blank canvas.
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Shutters and doors were naked, stripped to the wood and still waiting for fresh paint.
Fiction book (1990) -
The models were naked, wrapped in brown paper so you couldn't see what they'd got.
Fiction book (1991) -
The only light came from the naked bulbs strung along the structural beams.
Fiction book (1990) -
There's an old African proverb that says beware when a naked man offers you his shirt.
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The tree stood naked in winter, its branches completely bare of leaves.
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After the storm, the landscape appeared naked, stripped of all vegetation.
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He felt naked without his jacket on a chilly day, exposed to the cold wind.
Synonyms
Not covered or protected, showing the plain surface
Not wearing any clothes
Completely without clothes
Completely without any clothes
Not wearing any clothes
Not wearing any clothes
Completely without clothes with the bottom showing
Completely without clothes
Having no clothes on
Not wearing any clothes
Not wearing any clothes
Not wearing any clothes
Not wearing any clothes
A person who is not wearing any clothes
A person who has no clothes on
A person who has no clothes on
Completely without clothes on
Completely without clothes like a new baby
Completely without clothes, as when someone is born
Completely without clothes like at birth
Not wearing clothes on a part of the body
Not covered by clothes and showing skin
Antonyms
Idioms
Compounds
A small almost hairless African animal that lives underground in large groups like ants
- Specialized
To sell a right to buy or sell a stock without owning it and risk large losses
A simple card game for two players where one player tries to win all the other player's cards
How Bare
Surface Forms
Etymology
Naked comes from an old English word nacod meaning 'bare' or 'without covering', a strong image like a tree with no leaves. So we call branches or hills 'naked' when they have no cover or usual layer on them.