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Naked
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- 1 Bare, not covered by clothing.
"He was as naked as the day he was born."
- 2 Lacking some clothing; clothed only in underwear. colloquial, obsolete
"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."
- 3 Unadorned, without decoration or circumlocution; put bluntly. figuratively
"This is the naked truth."
- 4 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."
- 5 Unarmed. obsolete
"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."
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- 6 Lacking some sort of covering, protection, or accoutrement which might otherwise be expected.
"The tendrils of the naked flame stretched into the skies."
- 7 Lacking some sort of covering, protection, or accoutrement which might otherwise be expected.; 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 form recognizable constellations that, in turn, remain unchangeably distributed."
- 8 Lacking some sort of covering, protection, or accoutrement which might otherwise be expected.; Unsheathed, bare.
"There was a knock at the door. “Enter,” said the princess. An officer appeared with his naked sword in his hand."
- 9 Lacking some sort of covering, protection, or accoutrement which might otherwise be expected.; Without a condom.
"I entered her naked and came in her too."
- 10 Lacking some sort of covering, protection, or accoutrement which might otherwise be expected.; Sold by someone who does not, at that time, own the underlying asset to cover the contract.
"a naked put; a naked call"
- 11 Lacking some sort of covering, protection, or accoutrement which might otherwise be expected.; Uncomfortable or vulnerable, as if missing something important. figuratively
"I feel naked without my mobile phone."
- 12 Lacking some sort of covering, protection, or accoutrement which might otherwise be expected.; Lacking some ingredient, component, or additive usually present.
"a naked burrito (i.e. one without a tortilla)"
- 13 Lacking resources or means, poor. literary
"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."
- 14 Lacking (something) or devoid (of something) [with of].
"Freewill is made naked of all maner merite."
- 15 Blank, clean, empty. obsolete
"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."
- 16 Barren, having no foliage, unvegetated.
- 17 Not hidden within an event horizon and thus observable from other parts of spacetime.
- 1 having no clothes on the body wordnet
- 2 lacking any cover wordnet
- 3 devoid of elaboration or diminution or concealment; bare and pure wordnet
- 4 having no protecting or concealing cover wordnet
- 5 (of the eye or ear e.g.) without the aid of an optical or acoustical device or instrument wordnet
- 1 simple past and past participle of nake form-of, participle, past
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).
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
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