naked

CEFRB1

/ˈneɪkɪd/

adjective

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In plain English

01
adjective
Not wearing any clothes.
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adjective
Extra detail
Lacking some clothing; clothed only in underwear.

Examples

She was clutching the sheet around her naked body.
The king turned out to be naked.

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Senses: 5
Parts of speech: 1
Citations: 5
Synonyms: 5

Also pronounced

/ˈnɛkɪd/
/neɪkt/

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adjective

Extra meanings

Unadorned, without decoration or circumlocution; put bluntly.
Bare, not covered by clothing.
Involving naked people.

More examples

In context

You can't go naked in this hotel.
He was as naked as the day he was born.
The naked facts lay there on the table, enclosed within the files.

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Citations

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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
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.
1666, Samuel Pepys, Diary
The satirical historian has not blushed to describe the naked scenes which Theodora was not ashamed to exhibit in the theatre.
1788, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

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Origin

adjective

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).