naked

adjective more naked · most naked

1. Bare, not covered by clothing. He was as naked as the day he was born.
2. colloquial, obsolete Lacking some clothing; clothed only in underwear. 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. figuratively Unadorned, without decoration or circumlocution; put bluntly. This is the naked truth.

   Similar: unvarnished

4. of a setting or situation 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. obsolete Unarmed. 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.
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. of an eye 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. Having no fur, feathers or scales on the skin; like a human. We naked apes must be ever watchful for thorns and poison ivy as we hike the trail.
9. of a blade Unsheathed, bare. There was a knock at the door. “Enter,” said the princess. An officer appeared with his naked sword in his hand.
10. of a penis Without a condom. I entered her naked and came in her too.

    Similar: condomless

11. of a derivative contract Sold by someone who does not, at that time, own the underlying asset to cover the contract. a naked put; a naked call
12. figuratively Uncomfortable or vulnerable, as if missing something important. I feel naked without my mobile phone.
13. of food or other consumer products Lacking some ingredient, component, or additive usually present. a naked burrito (i.e. one without a tortilla)
14. literary Lacking resources or means, poor. 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.
15. Lacking (something) or devoid (of something) [with of]. Freewill is made naked of all maner merite.
16. obsolete Blank, clean, empty. 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.
17. of land Barren, having no foliage, unvegetated.
18. of a singularity Not hidden within an event horizon and thus observable from other parts of spacetime.

Similar: 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 · Opposite: clothed, decent, dressed

verb

1. participle, past simple past and past participle of nake