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Pronunciation varies by accent · adverb
(idiomatic) With very few clothes on; revealing lots of one's body..
Tim dressed himself in rags yesterday, and went out disguised as a beggar half-naked and without shoes or stockings. He robbed a gentleman and a lady of a watch and a purse.
[…] going about the county half-naked, but having good clothes, perhaps sent forward to the lodging-house by his jomer (girl); this is very often a profitable trade; the shallow-cove of course selling all the clothes he does not need himself.
Back there in the rolling, olive-clad hills is a splendid region of whose existence most of the visitors to the Riviera are unaware. There are no garish restaurants or casinos, no hot doggeries or Slopsy-kola signs, no half-naked women or twitching varicose veins being paraded.
Use half-naked when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Half-naked means (idiomatic) With very few clothes on; revealing lots of one's body..
Common synonyms include seminude, semi-nude, semi-naked, seminaked.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Tim dressed himself in rags yesterday, and went out disguised as a beggar half-naked and without shoes or stockings. He robbed a gentleman and a lady of a watch and a purse.
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