naked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈneɪkɪd/
ipa: /ˈnɛkɪd/
note: nonstandard, influenced by sense 2
ipa: /neɪkt/
Forms: form: more naked
form: most naked
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 and naan (the latter is uncertain).
Senses: examples: text: He was as naked as the day he was born.
text: Christ commeth not bare or naked, but clothed and accompanied with all his mercies.
ref: 1579, William Wilkinson, A confutation of certaine articles deliuered vnto the Familye of Loue:
text: Kruban is a tidally-locked Venusian hothouse, its surface perpetually obscured by clouds of sulfur and carbon dioxides.[…]
Every year, a few krogan attempt to land on Kruban and exit their ships naked in an attempt to prove their "kroganhood." The planet's surface is littered with the crushed, corroded remains of their ships. Only one, Shath Norda, is known to have returned from the surface alive, albeit with most of his bones crushed and all four of his lungs damaged by sulfuric gas.
ref: 2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Kruban:
glosses: Bare, not covered by clothing.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1680, James Gordon, History of Scots Affairs:
glosses: Lacking some clothing; clothed only in underwear.
examples: text: This is the naked truth.
text: The naked facts lay there on the table, enclosed within the files.
text: 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 defenses against naked racism, tired of being used to justify conditions at detention camps. Just plain tired.
ref: 2019 July 17, Talia Lavin, “When Non-Jews Wield Anti-Semitism as Political Shield”, in GQ:
glosses: Glib, without decoration, put bluntly.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1666, Samuel Pepys, Diary:
text: The satirical historian has not blushed to describe the naked scenes which Theodora was not ashamed to exhibit in the theatre.
ref: 1788, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire:
glosses: Characterized by the nakedness of the people concerned or to whom the described noun is attributed.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1727, Daniel Defoe, An essay on the history and reality of apparitions:
glosses: Unarmed.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 2001, Asger Aaboe, Episodes From the Early History of Astronomy:
glosses: Unaided, unaccompanied.
examples: text: The tendrils of the naked flame stretched into the skies.
text: 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.
ref: 1979 August, Graham Burtenshaw, Michael S. Welch, “O.V.S. Bulleid's SR loco-hauled coaches - 1”, in Railway World, page 398:
text: 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 cellular uptake of mRNA and protect it from degradation.
ref: 2018 April, Norbert Pardi, Michael J. Hogan, Frederick W. Porter, Drew Weissman, “mRNA vaccines — a new era in vaccinology”, in Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, volume 17, →DOI, page 262:
glosses: Unprotected, uncovered.
examples: text: I entered her naked and came in her too.
glosses: Unprotected, uncovered.
Without a condom.
examples: a naked put; a naked call
topics: business
finance
synonyms: uncovered
glosses: Where the writer (seller) does not own the underlying asset to cover the contract.
raw_tags: of a derivative contract
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1480, anonymous author, Cura Sapientiæ; or, The Court of Sapience, William Caxton:
text: I am a poor Man, naked, / Yet ſomething for Remembrance; four a piece, Gentlemen, / And ſo my Body where you pleaſe.
ref: c. 1625, John Fletcher, The Humorous Lieutenant:
glosses: Lacking resources or means, poor.
examples: text: Freewill is made naked of all maner merite.
ref: 1581, Walter Haddon, John Foxe, translated by James Bell, Against Ierome Osorius Byshopp of Siluane in Portingall and Against His Slaunderous Inuectiues: An Aunswere Apologeticall: for the Necessary Defence of the Euangelicall Doctrine and Veritie:
text: 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;
ref: 1619, Samuel Purchas, Purchas his Pilgrim: Microcosmus, or the Historie of Man, relating the Wonders of his Generation, Vanities in his Degeneration, Necessity of His Regeneration:
text: 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.
ref: 1969, Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist:
info_templates: extra_data: words: of
expansion: [with of]
glosses: Lacking (something) or devoid (of something) [with of].
examples: text: 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.
ref: c. 1660, Robert South, Sermon on John vii. 17.:
glosses: Blank, clean, empty.
qualifier: rocks; or plants; rocks; or plants
glosses: Barren, having no foliage, unvegetated.
raw_tags: of land
examples: text: I feel naked without my mobile phone.
glosses: Uncomfortable or vulnerable, as if missing something important.
examples: a naked burrito (i.e. one without a tortilla); a naked burger (without a bun)
Naked Bacon (a brand without nitrates or phosphates)
glosses: Without any additives, or without some component that would usually be included.
raw_tags: of food or other consumer products
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Not hidden within an event horizon and thus observable from other parts of spacetime.
raw_tags: of a singularity
Synonyms: word: bare
word: bareskin
word: nude
word: starkers
word: unclad
word: unclothed
word: in the altogether
word: butt-naked
word: bare-assed
word: in one's birthday suit
word: skyclad
word: showing skin
sense: without a condom
word: condomless
word: au naturel
word: bare-ass
word: bare-bottomed
word: bare-bum
word: bare-butt
word: bare naked
word: bare-skinned
word: Billy bollocks
word: bollock naked
word: bollocky
word: buck ass naked
word: buck naked
word: butt-ass naked
word: butt-stinking
word: clothesless
word: clothingless
word: denuded
word: exposed
word: Harry starkers
word: in all one's glory
word: in a state of nature
word: in the buff
word: in the nuddy
word: in the nude
word: in the pink
word: in the raw
word: in the scud
word: kaalgat
word: mother-naked
word: naked
word: naked as the day one was born
word: naked as a jaybird
word: nakers
word: nakie
word: nakes
word: nakey
word: nekkid
word: nip
word: scud
word: scuddy
word: stark bollock naked
word: stark naked
word: start naked
word: stone naked
word: undressed
word: wearing one's birthday suit
word: without a stitch on
Hyponyms: word: bare-breasted
word: barechested
word: bottomless
word: half-naked
word: semi-naked
word: semi-nude
word: shirtless
word: topless
word: topfree
Derived terms: bollock naked
bucket naked
buck-naked
buck naked
butt naked
half-naked
mother naked
mother-naked
nakation
naked ape
naked apron
naked as a jay
naked as a jay bird
naked as a jaybird
naked as a jay-bird
naked as the day one entered the world
naked as the day one was born
naked broomrape
naked catfish
naked domain
naked-eye
naked eye
naked flame
naked-handed
naked-handedly
naked hawksbeard
nakedhood
nakedise
nakedish
nakedize
naked lady
naked license
naked licensing
nakedly
naked man orchid
naked mole rat
naked oat
naked position
naked protein
naked sand rat
naked seed
naked self-interest
naked singularity
naked truth
nakedwood
nakie
rear naked choke
seminaked
semi-naked
stark bollock naked
stark naked
start naked
stone naked
strip Jack naked
strip-me-naked
strip me naked
trauma naked
unnaked
Related terms: word: undress
word: raw
word: condomless