naked
//ˈneɪkɪd//
Forms
- Comparative
- more naked
- Superlative
- most naked
Definitions
1.Bare, not covered by clothing.
- He was as naked as the day he was born.
- Smooth and slender and naked, Mary Rittersdorf faced her husband.
- Christ commeth not bare or naked, but clothed and accompanied with all his mercies.
2.Lacking some clothing; clothed only in underwear.(colloquial)
3.Unadorned, without decoration or circumlocution; put bluntly.
- The naked facts lay there on the table, enclosed within the files.
- This is the naked truth.
4.Involving naked people.
- The satirical historian has not blushed to describe the naked scenes which Theodora was not ashamed to exhibit in the theatre.
- 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.
1.simple past and past participle of nake
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #3182
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
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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).