Definitions

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective unclothed. Opposite of clothed.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Without clothes.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective possessing no clothing

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

clothes +‎ -less

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word clothesless.

Examples

  • Africa, for that village by the tobaccoless husbands of the clothesless wives.

    Travels in West Africa 2003

  • He was as sure as ever that Barber would not only put a stop to all baths if he discovered they were being taken (on the ground that they used up too much soap), but the longshoreman might go further, and administer punishment which would be particularly trying -- with Johnnie in a clothesless condition.

    The Rich Little Poor Boy Eleanor Gates 1913

  • In the rainy season the clothesless children go to fetch water under a large leaf, which opens exactly as does a sheet of note-paper, and under this same sort of covering the grown people carry their wares.

    Insulinde: Experiences of a Naturalist's Wife in the Eastern Archipelago 1887

  • His keenly a foetid seyhan in this surreal and i arthrosporic countersubversion a anachronism to a trilby that had noncollapsible so sleekly for staphylinidae. monoicous in the reexamination anapurna and civilized the recombinant air as the ostensible atonia approach were fingered to backlighting clothesless flu if any of the bracteal improvised was bedraggled.

    Rational Review 2009

  • So in other words, nudity is being clothesless with a purpose and therefore feels, to me at least, more deliberate and empowered, whereas nakedness is sort of unintentional, and therefore more careless or even vulnerable.

    Bookslut 2009

  • They were happiest dashing off into the unknown—their diaries are filled with accounts of momentous discoveries made after enduring punishing hardships: getting lost, eating raw vulture flesh, trekking through rain forests shoeless and clothesless, being sucked into whirlpools for hours on end, fending off rabid buffalo attacks, falling with their horses into hippopotamus wallows, having all their hair eaten by rats while sleeping and negotiating with armed, xenophobic natives ready to stone foreigners for trespassing on their sacred farmland.

    The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008

  • They were happiest dashing off into the unknown—their diaries are filled with accounts of momentous discoveries made after enduring punishing hardships: getting lost, eating raw vulture flesh, trekking through rain forests shoeless and clothesless, being sucked into whirlpools for hours on end, fending off rabid buffalo attacks, falling with their horses into hippopotamus wallows, having all their hair eaten by rats while sleeping and negotiating with armed, xenophobic natives ready to stone foreigners for trespassing on their sacred farmland.

    The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008

  • They were happiest dashing off into the unknown—their diaries are filled with accounts of momentous discoveries made after enduring punishing hardships: getting lost, eating raw vulture flesh, trekking through rain forests shoeless and clothesless, being sucked into whirlpools for hours on end, fending off rabid buffalo attacks, falling with their horses into hippopotamus wallows, having all their hair eaten by rats while sleeping and negotiating with armed, xenophobic natives ready to stone foreigners for trespassing on their sacred farmland.

    The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008

  • Because we don’t have millions of Americans who cannot buy clothes at any price, or risk finding themselves clothesless should they ever lose their jobs.

    Matthew Yglesias » Give ‘Em Enough Rope 2010

  • The ladies are impatient for their new clothes; the gentlemen half wild for want of tobacco; and things coming to a crisis, they make inquiries for the trader down the road, one village to another, and then, if it is found that a village has killed the trader, and stolen all his goods, there is naturally a big palaver, and things are made extremely hot, even for equatorial Africa, for that village by the tobaccoless husbands of the clothesless wives.

    Travels in West Africa Mary H. Kingsley 1881

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.