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naked

//ˈneɪkɪd//

Adjective

A word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.

Verb

A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

Note for naked

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Forms

Comparative
more naked
Superlative
most naked

Definitions

Adjective

A word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.

  1. 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. 2.Lacking some clothing; clothed only in underwear.(colloquial)

  3. 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. 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.

Verb

A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

  1. 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).

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