starkers

1 9.9

A person who has no clothes on

adjective
/ˈstɑːkəz/

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She realized she had gone starkers in front of the open window.

Examples

He walked into the room starkers after forgetting to grab his towel.
When the kids saw him starkers, they all burst out laughing.
There you are stark naked and you are you're bad.
So I think I might have to just go for starkers because when I tried that, I was like, Oh God, I Yep, that's going on my lips.

Synonyms

nude

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161 3.7

Not wearing any clothes

is a British informal word used mainly in casual speech

raw

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26 8.5

Completely without clothes

is British informal and often sounds more playful or regional

naked

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21 1.0

Not covered and showing the surface underneath

is British informal and used mainly in casual regional speech

uncovered

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17 1.9

Not wearing clothes on a part of the body

is a British informal term focused only on being without clothes not vulnerability

stark naked

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9 4.6

Completely without any clothes

is a British informal term rather than a plain descriptive phrase

in the buff

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7 9.3

Not wearing any clothes

is the British informal form used particularly in regional speech

unclothed

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4 3.7

Not wearing any clothes

is a British informal label with more colloquial tone than this neutral word

bare-ass

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3 9.9

Completely without clothes

is British informal and less crude covering exposure without crude focus

bare-assed

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3 9.6

Completely without clothes with the bottom showing

is British informal and general rather than focused on a body part

naked as a jaybird

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1 9.5

Having no clothes on

is a British informal form preferred in everyday casual contexts

in the raw

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1 8.8

A person who has no clothes on

is a British informal alternative commonly used in casual British usage

naked as the day you were born

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1 7.4

Completely without clothes like at birth

is a British informal phrase used more in spoken regional English

unclad

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1 7.5

Not wearing any clothes

is British informal and sounds more casual than this slightly formal term

clothesless

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1 8.4

Not wearing any clothes

is British informal and more playful than this plain descriptive term

garmentless

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1 8.1

Not wearing any clothes

is British informal and more casual than this formal or technical word

naked as the day one was born

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7.6

Completely without clothes, as when someone is born

is a British informal version often used in casual everyday speech

raimentless

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9.9

Not wearing any clothes, often appearing in poetry

is British informal and more modern and casual than this literary expression

Antonyms

dressed

765 1.0

Wearing special clothes for an occasion, for example a party

clothed

37 1.0

Wearing clothes to cover the body

How Naked

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naked

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undressed

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32 1.9

half-clothed

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1 4.6

Surface Forms

starkers positive

Morphology

starkers = stark (semi-transparent) = stark + ers

Formed from 'stark' with an informal colloquial suffix '-ers'; the specific sense 'completely naked' depends on the collocation 'stark naked' and the slang usage, so it is not fully predictable from 'stark' alone.

Etymology

Starkers comes from the old word stark, which meant 'complete' or 'absolute' and appears in the phrase 'stark naked'. So, starkers is a casual British way to say someone is 'completely naked'.