Englishnaked
adjective
1 he mistakenly shared a naked picture of himself:
nude, bare, in the nude, stark naked, with nothing on, stripped, unclothed, undressed, uncovered, in a state of nature, disrobed, unclad, undraped, exposed;
French au naturel;
informal without a stitch on, in one's birthday suit, in the raw, in the altogether, in the buff, as naked as the day one was born, in the nuddy, mother naked;
British, informal starkers;
Scottish, informal in the scud, scuddy;
North American, informal bare-assed, buck naked;
Australian, informal bollocky;
British, vulgar slang bollock-naked.
▷antonyms clothed, dressed.
2 each man was carrying a naked sword | a naked flame:
unprotected, uncovered, exposed, open, unguarded;
unsheathed, drawn.
▷antonyms covered, sheathed.
3 the naked branches of the trees:
bare, barren, stark, denuded, stripped, uncovered;
treeless, grassless;
rare defoliated.
4 I felt naked and exposed as I crossed the deserted square:
vulnerable, helpless, weak, powerless, defenceless, exposed, unprotected, undefended, open to attack.
5 the naked truth | naked hostility blazed in his eyes:
undisguised, plain, unadorned, unvarnished, unveiled, unqualified, stark, bald, unexaggerated, simple;
overt, obvious, open, patent, evident, apparent, manifest, unmistakable, palpable, blatant, glaring, flagrant, barefaced, out-and-out, unmitigated.
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related prefix, as in gymnosophist fear of being naked | |
| choose the right word | naked, nude, bare |
These words are all used to refer to a person's unclothed state. ■ Naked is the standard word for someone who isn't wearing any clothes. It also has several well-established metaphorical uses, always placed before the noun: the naked eye is unaided by a telescope or similar instrument, while a naked light bulb is not shielded or dimmed by a shade. Nakedfeelings or behaviour are openly expressed or at least undisguised (he saw in her eyes naked fear | naked self-interest). ■ Nude is slightly more formal or euphemistic than naked. It is used especially with reference to paintings and photographs of naked people (she posed as a nude model in magazines) or to swimming and sunbathing (nude bathing is illegal). ■ Bare is used typically to refer to just a part of the body (running about in bare feet). However, doing something with your bare hands implies that you are not using any tools, rather than not wearing gloves. In its metaphorical uses, bare suggests the removal of everything that is not absolutely indispensable (the bare bones of a news story | emissions are kept to a bare minimum). | |
naked Oxford Dictionary of English