naked
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
business
finance
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
zoology
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).
Inflected forms:
form: more naked
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most naked
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Bare, not covered by clothing.
pos: adj
examples: 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.
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.
gloss: Lacking some clothing; clothed only in underwear.
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
obsolete
examples: 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.
gloss: Unadorned, without decoration or circumlocution; put bluntly.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: 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 defenses against naked racism, tired of being used to justify conditions at detention camps. Just plain tired.
gloss: Involving naked people.
pos: adj
examples: 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.
gloss: Unarmed.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: 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.
gloss: Lacking some sort of covering, protection, or accoutrement which might otherwise be expected.
pos: adj
examples: 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.
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.
gloss: Lacking some sort of covering, protection, or accoutrement which might otherwise be expected.
pos: adj
examples: 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.
gloss: Lacking some sort of covering, protection, or accoutrement which might otherwise be expected.
pos: adj
examples: We naked apes must be ever watchful for thorns and poison ivy as we hike the trail.
gloss: Lacking some sort of covering, protection, or accoutrement which might otherwise be expected.
pos: adj
examples: There was a knock at the door.
“Enter,” said the princess.
An officer appeared with his naked sword in his hand.
gloss: Lacking some sort of covering, protection, or accoutrement which might otherwise be expected.
pos: adj
examples: I entered her naked and came in her too.
gloss: Lacking some sort of covering, protection, or accoutrement which might otherwise be expected.
pos: adj
examples: a naked put; a naked call
gloss: Lacking some sort of covering, protection, or accoutrement which might otherwise be expected.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: I feel naked without my mobile phone.
gloss: Lacking some sort of covering, protection, or accoutrement which might otherwise be expected.
pos: adj
examples: a naked burrito (i.e. one without a tortilla)
a naked burger (without a bun)
Naked Bacon (a brand without nitrates or phosphates)
gloss: Lacking resources or means, poor.
pos: adj
tags: literary
examples: 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.
gloss: Lacking (something) or devoid (of something) [with of].
pos: adj
examples: 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;
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.
gloss: Blank, clean, empty.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: 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.
gloss: Barren, having no foliage, unvegetated.
pos: adj
gloss: Not hidden within an event horizon and thus observable from other parts of spacetime.
pos: adj
Synonyms: bare
bareskin
nude
starkers
unclad
unclothed
in the altogether
butt-naked
bare-assed
in one's birthday suit
skyclad
showing skin
au naturel
bare-ass
bare-bottomed
bare-bum
bare-butt
barefoot all over
bare naked
bare-skinned
Billy bollocks
bollock naked
bollocky
buck ass naked
buck naked
butt-ass naked
butt-stinking
clothesless
clothingless
denuded
exposed
Harry starkers
in all one's glory
in a state of nature
in puris naturalibus
in the buff
in the nuddy
in the nude
in the pink
in the raw
in the scud
kaalgat
mother-naked
naked
naked as the day one was born
naked as a jaybird
nakers
nakie
nakes
nakey
nekkid
nip
nudie
nudy rudy
scud
scuddy
stark bollock naked
stark naked
start naked
stone naked
undressed
wearing one's birthday suit
without a stitch on
Antonyms: clothed
decent
dressed
Related words: undress
raw
condomless
Derived words: 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 dress
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
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