/ˈneɪkɪd/, /ˈnɛkɪd/, /neɪkt/
OriginFrom 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.”
“Smooth and slender and naked, Mary Rittersdorf faced her husband.”
- colloquial, obsoleteLacking 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 ro”
- figurativelyUnadorned, without decoration or circumlocution; put bluntly.
“This is the naked truth.”
“The naked facts lay there on the table, enclosed within the files.”
“And after the past few days, in which a fleet of Republicans and the president himself have utilized Jews as human shields for racist rhetoric, the Jews are tired, tired, tired of being used as defens”
- 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.”
- obsoleteUnarmed.
“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”
“Naked mRNA is quickly degraded by extracellular RNases¹⁷ and is not internalized efficiently. Thus, a great variety of in vitro and in vivo transfection reagents have been developed that facilitate ce”
- Unaided; not using an optical device such as telescope or binoculars.
“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 f”
- Unsheathed, bare.
“There was a knock at the door.
“Enter,” said the princess.
An officer appeared with his naked sword in his hand.”
- Without a condom.
“I entered her naked and came in her too.”
- Sold by someone who does not, at that time, own the underlying asset to cover the contract.
“a naked put; a naked call”
- figurativelyUncomfortable or vulnerable, as if missing something important.
“I feel naked without my mobile phone.”
- Lacking some ingredient, component, or additive usually present.
“a naked burrito (i.e. one without a tortilla)”
“a naked burger (without a bun)”
“Naked Bacon (a brand without nitrates or phosphates)”
- literaryLacking 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 tong”
“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 subiect”
“I have spent about three weeks at home since Dec 1. As always, I am naked of good article ideas—despite my constant involvement with good subjects.”
- obsoleteBlank, 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.
- form-of, participle, pastsimple past and past participle of nake
Formsmore naked(comparative) · most naked(superlative)