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naked Definition

na·ked (nā′kid)

adjective

    1. completely unclothed; bare; nude
    2. uncovered; exposed: said of parts of the body
  2. lacking clothing, means of support, etc.; destitute
  3. without protection or defense
  4. without conventional or usual covering; specif.,
    1. out of its sheath a naked sword
    2. without grass, vegetation, etc.
    3. without furnishing, decoration, etc. a naked wall
  5. without additions, ornaments, disguises, or embellishments; plain; stark the naked truth
  6. without the aid of a microscope, telescope, etc. the naked eye
  7. Bot. without leaves, corolla, ovary, perianth, etc.
  8. Law lacking a necessary condition; invalid a naked contract
  9. Zool. without hair, scales, feathers, shell, etc.

Etymology: ME < OE nacod, akin to Ger nackt < IE base *nogw-, naked > Sans nagná-, L nudus

naked Related Forms

na′·kedly adverb na′·ked·ness noun

naked Synonyms

naked

modif.

  1. Nude

    unclothed, undressed, nude, stripped, unclad, disrobed, unrobed, divested, leafless, hairless, bare, undraped, exposed, ungarmented, having nothing on, in dishabille, unappareled, denuded, unveiled, uncovered, uncloaked, stark naked, bald, bareheaded, barren, dismantled, au naturel (French), mother-naked, buck naked*, in the altogether*, in one's birthday suit*, in the buff*, peeled*, without a stitch*, in the raw*, topless, bottomless, not decent*, in a state of nature*, starkers*.

    Antonyms clothed*, clad*, dressed.

  2. Without covering

    exposed, bared, unconcealed, unprotected; see exposed 2, open 4.

  3. Unadorned

    plain, stark, simple, artless; see abrupt 2, modest 2, natural 3.

naked implies the absence of clothing, either entirely or from some part, and connotes a revealing of the body a naked bosom; in extended use, naked often connotes lack of concealment or embellishment naked ambition ; nude, which is somewhat euphemistic for naked, is commonly applied to the undraped human figure in art; bare, in this comparison, implies the absence of the conventional or appropriate covering bare legs, bare floors; bald suggests a lack of natural covering, as of hair on the head, and in extended use may suggest plainness or bluntness the bald facts; barren implies a lack of natural covering, esp. vegetation, and connotes destitution and fruitlessness barren lands

naked Finance Definition

  1. Undertaking either a long or short market position without having an offsetting short or long position.
  2. Executing one side of a spread without executing the other side.
  3. Writing an options contract without owning the underlying investment.

naked Usage Examples

Preposition: through

street: TB may yet avoid having to run naked through the streets of a town full of butch sailors.

Modifies a noun

  • flame: Never put a naked flame near a charging battery nor allow any chance of a spark in the vicinity.
  • eye: The blood may be visible to the naked eye or may only be picked up on testing your urine.
  • self-interest: Looks like his admission that he voting Cameron out of naked self-interest has done him no harm at all.
  • torso: Two huge venues packed to capacity with more half naked torsos than an average Trade party night.
  • singularity: A naked singularity, by contrast, has no such protective barrier.
  • flesh: Instead the work is liberated - with some pieces finding room for a spot of naked flesh.

Modifying Another Word

  • completely: Susan Hare is pictured posing completely naked on the website, leaving nothing to the imagination.
  • nearly: Nearly naked people floated past on roller blades reading the LA Times.
  • almost: In the male ward were eight or ten men walking about almost naked.
  • totally: Afraid to go swimming or wake-up in the morning looking totally naked?

Used with adjective complement

  • sunbathe: Caroline had been sunbathing naked at the time, up on the roof.
  • strip: Six scraps of 8mm found footage from the sixties are stripped naked in search of intimacy.
  • pose: Britney Spears posed naked for the front cover of Bazaar magazine.
  • lie: The fact that he seemed to be lying naked on a bed of straw did surprise him.
  • stand: I know about how terrible it is to stand naked in the showers.
  • swim: You're swimming naked in a lake describe in three words how you feel.

Preposition: in

front: More to the point, imagine that you are forced to be naked in front of them, too.

Preposition: from

  • waist: The victim was naked from the waist up, which revealed a bloody Serb cross carved in his back.
  • cabinet: How exactly does one leap naked from a filing cabinet?

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