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naked adjective [ ˈneɪkɪd ]

• (of a person or part of the body) without clothes.
• "he'd never seen a naked woman before"
Similar: nude, bare, in the nude, stark naked, with nothing on, stripped, unclothed, undressed, uncovered, in a state of nature, disrobed, unclad, undraped, exposed, au naturel, without a stitch on, in one's birthday suit, in the raw, in the altogether, in the buff, in the nuddy, mother naked, starkers, in the scud, scuddy, bare-assed, buck naked, bollocky, bollock-naked,
Opposite: clothed, dressed,
• (especially of feelings or behaviour) expressed openly; undisguised.
• "naked fear made him tremble"
Similar: 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,
Origin: Old English nacod, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch naakt and German nackt, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin nudus and Sanskrit nagna .

in the nude

• in an unclothed state; naked.
• "I like to swim in the nude"

the naked eye

• unassisted vision, without a telescope, microscope, or other device.
"through his telescope Galileo observed myriads of stars invisible to the naked eye"



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