naked
IPA: nˈeɪkʌd
adjective
- Bare, not covered by clothing.
- (obsolete) Lacking some clothing; clothed only in underwear.
- Glib, without decoration, put bluntly.
- Characterized by the nakedness of the people concerned or to whom the described noun is attributed.
- (obsolete) Unarmed.
- Unaided, unaccompanied.
- Unprotected, uncovered; (by extension) without a condom.
- (finance, of a derivative contract) Where the writer (seller) does not own the underlying asset to cover the contract.
- (literary) Lacking resources or means, poor.
- (with “of”) Lacking or devoid of something.
- (obsolete) Blank, clean, empty.
- (of land, rocks, or plants) Barren, having no foliage, unvegetated.
- Uncomfortable or vulnerable, as if missing something important.
- (of food or other consumer products) Without any additives, or without some component that would usually be included.
- (physics, of a singularity) Not hidden within an event horizon and thus observable from other parts of spacetime.
Examples of "naked" in Sentences
- The Naked Method -- Add the word "naked" to every headline.
- "After the feast, young slave girls strewed the mosaic with sawdust dyed saffron and vermilion, mixed with sparkling powder, and naked virgins danced -- _naked_ virgins!"
- Thousands of noisy demonstrators continued to throng the rotunda of the historic statehouse in Madison, while others marched outside to protest what they called a naked attempt to break public employee unions.
- One might start, for instance, wondering what the art historian Kenneth Clark, whose 1956 book "The Nude" examined the aesthetics of the human figure, would make of the Japanese-born couple's use of the English word "naked" in their title.
- He drank for many of the last years of his life great quantities of rum and brandy, which he called the naked truth; and if, in compliance to other gentlemen, he drank claret or punch, he always took an equal quantity of spirits to qualify those liquors: this he called a wedge.