naked
adjective
- nude; not clothed
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈneɪkɪd/ / /ˈnɛkɪd/ / /neɪkt/
adj
Etymology: From Middle English naked, from Old English nacod, from Proto-West Germanic *nak(k)wad, from Proto-Germanic *nakwadaz, from Proto-Indo-European *negʷ- (“naked”). Doublet of nude (remotely).
- Bare, not covered by clothing.
“He was as naked as the day he was born.”
“Christ commeth not bare or naked, but clothed and accompanied with all his mercies.”
- Lacking some clothing; clothed only in underwear.
“For no body would staye to give them intelligence, the countrey people running evry wher out of ther waye, and some of them flying out of ther bedds nacked in their shirts, who runne to the neerest rockes on the sea syde; so formidable was ther very name.”
- Unadorned, without decoration or circumlocution; put bluntly.
“This is the naked truth.”
“The naked facts lay there on the table, enclosed within the files.”
- Involving naked people.
“So here I went the first time into a naked bed, only my drawers on; and did sleep pretty well: but still both sleeping and waking had a fear of fire in my heart, that I took little rest.”
“The satirical historian has not blushed to describe the naked scenes which Theodora was not ashamed to exhibit in the theatre.”
- Unarmed.
“You an’t even with me yet, ſays ſhe; I ſcorn as much to take up a Sword againſt a Naked Man; as you ought to have ſcorn’d, if you had been a Gentleman, to give the Lie to a Woman.”
- Lacking some sort of covering, protection, or accoutrement which might otherwise be expected.
“The tendrils of the naked flame stretched into the skies.”
“Lighting was unimaginative for the standard stock with naked tungsten filament bulbs and metal reflectors. However, all compartments had individual reading lights above the seats with attractive glass shades.”
- Lacking some sort of covering, protection, or accoutrement which might otherwise be expected.
“If all celestial bodies visible to the naked eye are thus mapped on the celestial sphere, it becomes apparent that the vast majority of them remain in fixed patterns with respect to each other: They form recognizable constellations that, in turn, remain unchangeably distributed.”
- Lacking some sort of covering, protection, or accoutrement which might otherwise be expected.
“We naked apes must be ever watchful for thorns and poison ivy as we hike the trail.”
- Lacking some sort of covering, protection, or accoutrement which might otherwise be expected.
“There was a knock at the door. “Enter,” said the princess. An officer appeared with his naked sword in his hand.”
- Lacking some sort of covering, protection, or accoutrement which might otherwise be expected.
“I entered her naked and came in her too.”
- Lacking some sort of covering, protection, or accoutrement which might otherwise be expected.
“a naked put; a naked call”
- Lacking some sort of covering, protection, or accoutrement which might otherwise be expected.
“I feel naked without my mobile phone.”
- Lacking some sort of covering, protection, or accoutrement which might otherwise be expected.
“a naked burrito (i.e. one without a tortilla)”
“a naked burger (without a bun)”
- Lacking resources or means, poor.
“I knowe my self moost naked in al artes, / My comune ne vulgare eke moost interupte, / And I conversaunte and born in the partes / Where my natyfe langage is moost corrupt, / And with most sundry tonges myxt and rupte.”
“I am a poor Man, naked, / Yet ſomething for Remembrance; four a piece, Gentlemen, / And ſo my Body where you pleaſe.”
- Lacking (something) or devoid (of something) [with of].
“Freewill is made naked of all maner merite.”
“Their eyes were opened to ſee their nakedneſſe: naked they were of diuine protection and fauor, naked of Angelicall guard and cuſtodie, naked of Humane puritie and holineſſe, naked of dutifull subiection from the rebelling Creatures;”
- Blank, clean, empty.
“For in the first it finds the mind naked and unprepossessed with any former notions, and so easily and insensibly gains upon the assent, grows up with it, and incorporates into it.”
- Barren, having no foliage, unvegetated.
- Not hidden within an event horizon and thus observable from other parts of spacetime.
verb
Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
- simple past and past participle of nake