Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having no clothing on the body; nude.
- adjective Having no covering, especially the usual one.
- adjective Devoid of vegetation, trees, or foliage.
- adjective Being without addition, concealment, disguise, or embellishment.
- adjective Devoid of a specified quality, characteristic, or element.
- adjective Exposed to harm; vulnerable.
- adjective Not enclosed in an ovary.
- adjective Unprotected by scales.
- adjective Lacking a perianth.
- adjective Without leaves or pubescence.
- adjective Zoology Lacking outer covering such as scales, fur, feathers, or a shell.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Said of a vessel's bottom when her copper is stripped off.
- Unclothed; without clothing or covering; bare; nude: as, a naked body or limb.
- Without covering; especially, without the usual or customary covering; exposed; bare: as, a naked sword.
- Specifically— In botany, noting flowers without a calyx, ovules or seeds not in a closed ovary (gymnosperms), stems without leaves, and parts destitute of hairs.
- In zoology, noting mollusks when the body is not defended by a calcareous shell.
- In entomology, without hairs, bristles, scales, or other covering on the surface.
- Open to view.
- Mere; bare; simple.
- Having no means of defense or protection against an enemy's attack, or against other injury; unarmed; exposed; defenseless.
- Bare; unprovided; unfurnished; destitute.
- In music, noting the harmonic interval of a fifth or fourth, when taken alone.
- In law, unsupported by authority or consideration: as, a naked overdraft; a naked promise.
- Synonyms Uncovered, undressed.
- Unprotected, unsheltered, unguarded.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having no clothes on; uncovered; nude; bare
- adjective Having no means of defense or protection; open; unarmed; defenseless.
- adjective Unprovided with needful or desirable accessories, means of sustenance, etc.; destitute; unaided; bare.
- adjective Without addition, exaggeration, or excuses; not concealed or disguised; open to view; manifest; plain.
- adjective Mere; simple; plain.
- adjective (Bot.) Without pubescence; ; bare, or not covered by the customary parts, as a flower without a perianth, a stem without leaves, seeds without a pericarp, buds without bud scales.
- adjective (Mus.) Not having the full complement of tones; -- said of a chord of only two tones, which requires a third tone to be sounded with them to make the combination pleasing to the ear.
- adjective a bed the occupant of which is naked, no night linen being worn in ancient times.
- adjective the eye alone, unaided by eyeglasses, or by telescope, microscope, or other magnifying device.
- adjective (Zoöl.) See
Hydromedusa . - adjective (Carp.) the timberwork which supports a floor.
- adjective (Zoöl.) a nudibranch.
- adjective (Bot.) a large rhamnaceous tree (
Colibrina reclinata ) of Southern Florida and the West Indies, having a hard and heavy heartwood, which takes a fine polish.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
nake . - adjective Not wearing any clothes; without clothing on the genitals or female nipples.
- adjective Glib, without decoration, put bluntly.
- adjective
Unprotected ; (by extension) without a condom. - adjective
Uncomfortable ; as if missing something important.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (of the eye or ear e.g.) without the aid of an optical or acoustical device or instrument
- adjective completely unclothed
- adjective lacking any cover
- adjective having no protecting or concealing cover
- adjective devoid of elaboration or diminution or concealment; bare and pure
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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"After the feast, young slave girls strewed the mosaic with sawdust dyed saffron and vermilion, mixed with sparkling powder, and naked virgins danced -- _naked_ virgins!"
The Coming of the King Bernie Babcock
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The Naked Method -- Add the word "naked" to every headline.
Omri Marcus: Five Ways to Read the Paper and Keep Your Sanity Intact Omri Marcus 2011
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One might start, for instance, wondering what the art historian Kenneth Clark, whose 1956 book "The Nude" examined the aesthetics of the human figure, would make of the Japanese-born couple's use of the English word "naked" in their title.
In a Place of Dreams and Dreamers Robert Greskovic 2011
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Omri Marcus: Five Ways to Read the Paper and Keep Your Sanity Intact Omri Marcus 2011
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Thousands of noisy demonstrators continued to throng the rotunda of the historic statehouse in Madison, while others marched outside to protest what they called a naked attempt to break public employee unions.
Wisconsin Gov. Walker threatens to trigger layoffs for thousands of public workers 2011
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The Naked Method -- Add the word "naked" to every headline.
Omri Marcus: Five Ways to Read the Paper and Keep Your Sanity Intact Omri Marcus 2011
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The Naked Method -- Add the word "naked" to every headline.
Omri Marcus: Five Ways to Read the Paper and Keep Your Sanity Intact Omri Marcus 2011
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The Naked Method -- Add the word "naked" to every headline.
Omri Marcus: Five Ways to Read the Paper and Keep Your Sanity Intact Omri Marcus 2011
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The Naked Method -- Add the word "naked" to every headline.
Omri Marcus: Five Ways to Read the Paper and Keep Your Sanity Intact Omri Marcus 2011
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He drank for many of the last years of his life great quantities of rum and brandy, which he called the naked truth; and if, in compliance to other gentlemen, he drank claret or punch, he always took an equal quantity of spirits to qualify those liquors: this he called a wedge.
The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent Hussey, S M 1904
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(The term "naked" or "bare" domain is generally used to refer to a second-level domain (example.com), in contrast to a more qualified subdomain, such as e.g., www.example.com.)
The gTLDs' New Clothes - A Look at Centralization in Naked Domains 2023
frindley commented on the word naked
The word naked was originally a past participle; the naked man was the man who had undergone a process of naking, that is, of stripping or peeling (you used the verb of nuts and fruit). Time out of mind the naked man has seemed to our ancestors not the natural but the abnormal man; not the man who has abstained from dressing but the man who has been for some reason undressed.
CS Lewis, The Four Loves
May 10, 2008
yarb commented on the word naked
Was CS Lewis a nudist?!
May 11, 2008
frindley commented on the word naked
I don't believe so. If you read him carefully, and the full context makes it clearer, he's effectively saying that being dressed is our natural state, and that it takes a verb (i.e. an action) to render us undressed and therefore naked. So I doubt he would have had much sympathy for "naturists", whom I understand consider nudity to be the natural state.
May 11, 2008
yarb commented on the word naked
As a wannabe nudist, I read "time out of mind..." as perjorative of our ancestors.
May 11, 2008
bilby commented on the word naked
Naked
on a naked horse
in pouring rain!
- Kobayashi Issa
March 4, 2010
madmouth commented on the word naked
ah, equine eroticism--where would classical poetry be without you?
March 4, 2010
yarb commented on the word naked
I'm all for nudism but not where horses are concerned.
March 4, 2010
frogapplause commented on the word naked
I thought naking was a synonym of yarbing. Go figure.
March 4, 2010
ruzuzu commented on the word naked
Ew. Seeing the word "naking" after reading about horses makes me of knackers.
I have to stop thinking about this before I make some joke about knackerphilia.
November 10, 2010