Naked Meaning
/ˈneɪkɪd/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
adjBare, not covered by clothing.
adjLacking some clothing; clothed only in underwear.
Sentence Examples
You can't go naked in this hotel.
The king turned out to be naked.
She was clutching the sheet around her naked body.
Synonyms & Antonyms
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The baby lay ____ on the changing table, with no clothes on at all.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The biologist observed the rare insects with his ____ eye, but he later used a powerful microscope to see several of their much smaller features.
Word Origin & History
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).
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"Christ commeth not bare or naked, but clothed and accompanied with all his mercies."
— 1579, William Wilkinson, A confutation of certaine articles deliuered vnto the Familye of Loue:
"Smooth and slender and naked, Mary Rittersdorf faced her husband."
— 1964, Philip K. Dick, “THIRTEEN”, in Clans of the Alphane Moon, United States: Ace Books, →OCLC; republished London: HarperCollinsPublishers, 1996, →ISBN, page 193:
"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."
— 2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Kruban:
"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."
— 1680, James Gordon, History of Scots Affairs:
"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."
— 2019 July 17, Talia Lavin, “When Non-Jews Wield Anti-Semitism as Political Shield”, in GQ:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The baby lay ____ on the changing table, with no clothes on at all.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The biologist observed the rare insects with his ____ eye, but he later used a powerful microscope to see several of their much smaller features.