Naked

English

Adjective

Naked (comparative more Naked, superlative most Naked)

1. Not wearing any clothes.

   She was as naked as the day she was born.

2. Glib, without decoration, put bluntly.

   This is the naked truth.

   The naked facts lay there on the table, enclosed within the files.

3. Unprotected.

   The tendrils of the naked flame stretched into the skies.

4. Uncomfortable.

   I feel naked without my mobile phone.

Synonyms

• bare
• nude
• starkers
• unclad
• unclothed
• See also Thesaurus:nude

Derived terms

Terms derived from naked

naked ape naked eye naked flame

naked truth half-naked, half naked semi-naked

stark naked

Thesaurus

absolute, apparent, au naturel, bald, bare, bare-ass, bared, barefaced, beholdable, blank, blatant, blunt, clarified, clear, cleared, colorless, conspicuous, denuded, detectable, discernible, disclosed, discovered, distilled, evident, exposed, exposed to view, flagrant, free, glaring, gymnosophical, hanging out, in evidence, in full view, in native buff, in plain sight, in plain view, in puris naturalibus, in the altogether, in the buff, in the raw, in view, insight, liable, manifest, naturistic, neat, nonimmune, noticeable, nude, nudist, observable, obvious, open, open as day, open to all, open to view, outcropping, overt, palpable, patent, peeled, perceivable, perceptible, plain, pure, purified, raw, recognizable, rectified, revealed, seeable, sheer, showing, simple, stark, stark-naked, straight, stripped, susceptible, to be seen, unadorned, unadulterated, unaided, unalloyed, unarrayed, unassisted, unblended, unclad, unclassified, unclogged, unclosed, unclothed, unclouded, uncolored, uncombined, uncomplicated, uncompounded, unconcealed, uncorrupted, uncovered, undecked, undecorated, undeniable, undiluted, undisguised, undraped, undressed, unembellished, unfortified, unfurbished, ungarnished, unhidden, unleavened, unmingled, unmistakable, unmitigated, unmixed, unobstructed, unornamented, unprotected, unrestricted, unsheathed, unsophisticated, unstopped, untinged, untrimmed, unvarnished, viewable, visible, visual, wide-open, with nothing on, without a stitch, witnessable

Etymology

Old English nacod (“naked”), from Proto-Germanic *nakwadaz, from Proto-Indo-European *nogʷó- (“naked”).

Pronunciation

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Translations

not wearing any clothes

Albanian: lakuriq (sq) Arabic: عاري (ar) (3aariy) Armenian: մերկ (hy) (merk), տկլոր (hy) (tklor) Basque: biluzi (eu) Belarusian: голы (be) (hóly) Breton: noazh (br) Bulgarian: гол (bg) (gol) Catalan: despullat (ca), nu (ca) Chamicuro: kolochoshko Chinese: Cantonese: trad. and simpl. 冇著衫 (jyutping: mou5 zoek3 saam1), trad. and simpl. 冇着衫 (jyutping: mou5 zoek3 saam1) Mandarin: 赤裸 (cmn) (chìluǒ), 裸 (cmn) (luǒ), 裸體 (zh), 裸体 (zh) (luǒtǐ) Czech: nahý (cs) m. Danish: nøgen (da), bar (da), blottet (da) Dutch: naakt, bloot, ongekleed Esperanto: nuda (eo) Estonian: paljas (et), alasti (et) Faroese: nakin (fo) Finnish: alaston (fi), alasti (fi), kelteisillään (fi) French: nu (fr) Georgian: შიშველი (ka) (šišveli), ტიტველი (ka) (titveli) German: nackt (de) Greek: γυμνός (el) (gymnós) Hebrew: עירום (he) Hindi: नंगा (hi) (nãṅgā), नग्न (hi) (nagna) Hungarian: meztelen (hu), csupasz (hu), pucér (hu) Icelandic: nakinn (is) m., nakin (is) f., nakið (is) n.; ber (is) m. and f., bert (is) n. Indonesian: telanjang (id) Irish: nocht (ga) Italian: nudo (it) Japanese: 裸の (ja) (はだかの, hadaka-no) Kazakh: жалаңаш (kk), тыржалаңаш (kk) Korean: 벌거벗은 (ko) (beolgeobeoseun), (predicative) 벌거벗다 (ko) (beolgeobeotda)

Kurdish: Sorani: ڕوت (ku) (Root) Latin: nudus (la) Latvian: kails (lv), pliks (lv) Lithuanian: nuogas (lt) Macedonian: гол (mk) (gol) Maltese: please add this translation if you can Manx: lhome (gv) Maori: please add this translation if you can Mongolian: нүцгэн (mn) (nücgen) Norwegian: naken (no) Old English: nacod (ang) Persian: برهنه (fa) (berahne) Polish: nagi (pl) m. Portuguese: nu (pt) Romanian: dezbrăcat (ro), gol (ro) Russian: голый (ru) (gólyj), нагой (ru) (nagój), обнажённый (ru) (obnažónnyj) Scottish Gaelic: lomnochd (gd), rùisgte (gd), lom (gd) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: го (sh), гол (sh), наг (sh) Roman: go (sh), gol (sh), nag (sh) Slovak: nahý (sk), holý (sk) Slovene: gol (sl) m., nag (sl) m. Spanish: desnudo ; (colloquial) en cueros, en pelotas (also 'en pelota') ; (regional) bichi (Northwestern Mexico), calato (Bolivia, Northern Chile, Peru, Southern Ecuador), chingo (Costa Rica), empeloto (Colombia), pilocho (El Salvador), viringo (Southern Ecuador) Swedish: naken (sv) Thai: ล่อนจ้อน (th) (lôn-jôn), โล้งโต้ง (th) (lóhng-dtôhng) Turkish: çıplak (tr) Ukrainian: голий (uk) (hólyj), нагий (uk) (nahýj) Urdu: ننگا (ur) (nãṅgā) Vietnamese: khoả thân (vi) Volapük: nüdik (vo) Welsh: noeth (cy) Yiddish: נאַקעט (yi) (naket)

glib, without decoration, put bluntly

Danish: nøgen (da), utilsløret (da) Dutch: naakt, onopgesmukt Finnish: puhdas (fi), paljas (fi) Hungarian: puszta (hu), csupasz (hu), kopár (hu) Icelandic: ber (is) m. and f., bert (is) n.

Manx: lhome (gv) Norwegian: naken (no) Russian: голый (ru) (gólyj) Slovene: gol (sl) m., gola (sl) f., golo (sl) n.

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Danish: åben (da), uafskærmet (da) Finnish: paljas (fi), avoin (fi) Icelandic: ber (is) m. and f., bert (is) n.; óvarinn (is) m., óvarin (is) f., óvarið (is) n. Norwegian: naken (no)

Russian: голый (ru) (gólyj), (e.g. eye) невооружённый (ru) (nevooružónnyj), незащищенный (ru) (nezaščiščónnyj) Scottish Gaelic: lom (gd) Spanish: desabrigado (es)

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Amuzgo: kísí Mandarin: 赤裸 (chìluǒ) Croatian: gol Esperanto: nuda Estonian: alasti French: nu m., nue f. Georgian: შიშველი, ტიტველი German: nackt, blank

Indonesian: telanjang Italian: nudo m., nuda f. Japanese: 裸 (はだか) Korean: 벌거벗은 (beolgeobeoseun), 적나라한 (jeoknarahan) Old English: nacod, bær Portuguese: despido m., despida f. Slovak: nahý, holý Swedish: naken Telugu: నగ్నం (nagnaM)

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