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nude

nude

55 3.8
The state of not wearing any clothes
  • noun
  • /nuːd/
  • NSFW
translation icon : desnudez
  • I like to sleep in the nude.
  • pose in the nude
  • model in the nude
  • woman in the nude

We'll get to he's fishing in the nude his he's got the wow.

Examples

  • A sign on the left side of the screen reads "Warning! Nude Beach."

    Fiction book (1999)
  • Why are you reading a cookbook in the nude?

  • And one of them completely in the nude.

  • do you sleep in the nude?

  • You do your housework in the nude and it tends to attract the wrong element.

  • Each baby was weighed nude and gestational age assessed using the Dubowitz score.

    Academic text (2007)
  • Rather than fall back on the usual twee landscape scenes, she talked her friends into posing nude for the local Women's Institute calendar.

  • During the art class, the model posed nude for the students to practice their drawing skills.

  • The photographer specializes in capturing the beauty of the human form, often featuring subjects nude in natural settings.

  • She felt liberated and confident as she danced in the garden, completely nude and embracing her natural self.

Synonyms

nudity
vsnude
  • NSFW
69 4.6

Being without clothes on the body

is a common alternative term used to describe the same condition
nakedness
vsnude
  • NSFW
15 2.8

Being without clothes and feeling exposed

is the adjective or phrase often used for that state
buff
vsnude
  • NSFW
15 8.9

The state of not wearing any clothes

is the neutral descriptive term rather than slang
in the buff
vsnude
  • NSFW
6 9.3

Not wearing any clothes

is the same idea but often used in neutral contexts
undress
vsnude
  • NSFW
5 3.3

The state of wearing no or only some clothes

focuses only on the complete state of having no clothes
nudeness
vsnude
1 5.3

The state of being without clothes on the body

is the standard form more commonly used in speech and writing
in the raw
vsnude
  • NSFW
8.8

A person who has no clothes on

is the neutral descriptive term rather than blunt informal speech
in the altogether
vsnude
  • NSFW
9.9

A state of having no clothes on

is the more modern neutral expression for that condition
bareness
vsnude
  • NSFW
6.0

Being without clothes or covering on the body

refers to the full state of having no clothing rather than partial exposure

Antonyms

1 1.0

Wearing clothes to cover the body

Compounds

nude dancing
  • Offensive
1 7.9

A dance where the dancer wears little or no clothing to excite an audience

1 3.8

A person who is not wearing any clothes

nude mouse
  • Specialized
1 7.2

A small hairless mouse with a weak immune system used in medical research

1 5.3

A painting that shows a naked person as the main subject

1 5.0

A statue showing a naked person

A statue showing a naked person made as art

How Covered

clothed
1 1.0
half-clothed
  • NSFW
1 4.6
nude
  • NSFW
55 3.8

Surface Forms

nude singular
nudes plural

Etymology

Nude comes from the Latin nudus 'naked', and you can see the same idea in the English word nudity. So to be 'in the nude' simply means to be without clothes.