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naked



naked BrE [ˈneɪkɪd] NAmE [ˈneɪkɪd] adjective
1. not wearing any clothes
Syn: bare
a naked body
naked shoulders
They often wandered around the house stark naked (= completely naked).
They found him half naked and bleeding to death.
The prisoners were stripped naked.
see also buck naked
2. usually before noun without the usual covering
Syn: bare
a naked light
a naked sword
Mice are born naked (= without fur).
• (BrE)a naked flame  In American English this is called an open flame.
3. only before noun (of emotions, attitudes, etc.)expressed strongly and not hidden
naked aggression
the naked truth
4. not usually before noun unable to protect yourself from being harmed, criticized, etc.
Syn: helpless
He still felt naked and drained after his ordeal.
Idiom:naked eye
Derived Words:nakedly nakedness

Word Origin:
Old English nacod, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch naakt and German nackt, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin nudus and Sanskrit nagna.

Thesaurus:
naked [naked nakedly nakedness] adj.
The prisoners were stripped naked.
bare • • nude • • undressed • • in the nude
Opp: clothed, Opp: dressed
sb's naked/bare skin/flesh/shoulder/thigh/torso
completely/almost naked/bare/nude

Synonyms:
naked / bare
Both these words can be used to mean ‘not covered with clothes’ and are frequently used with the following nouns:
Naked is more often used to describe a person or their body and bare usually describes a part of the body.
Bare can also describe other things with nothing on them: bare walls a bare hillside. Naked can mean ‘without a protective covering’: a naked sword.
Bare can also mean ‘just enough’: the bare minimum. Naked can be used to talk about strong feelings that are not hidden: naked fear. Note also the idiom: (visible) to/with the naked eye.

Example Bank:
I suggest you don't make a habit of going around half naked.
Never had he felt so completely naked.
She had been left naked and alone.
She quickly stripped naked.
She realized with a shock that she was stark naked.
Her blonde hair fell over her naked shoulders.
Revealed: the naked truth about your favourite soap stars.
She was clutching the sheet around her naked body.
The prisoners were stripped naked.
They often wandered around the house stark naked.
buck naked

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