Naked

/ˈneɪkɪd/ · adjective

Meaning

Bare, not covered by clothing..

Definitions by Sense

1. Bare, not covered by clothing.
2. (obsolete or colloquial) Lacking some clothing; clothed only in underwear.
3. (figuratively) Unadorned, without decoration or circumlocution; put bluntly.
4. (of a setting or situation) Involving naked people.
5. (obsolete) Unarmed.
6. Lacking some sort of covering, protection, or accoutrement which might otherwise be expected.
7. (literary) Lacking resources or means, poor.
8. Lacking (something) or devoid (of something) [with of].

Example Sentences

He was as naked as the day he was born.

Christ commeth not bare or naked, but clothed and accompanied with all his mercies.

Smooth and slender and naked, Mary Rittersdorf faced her husband.

Kruban is a tidally-locked Venusian hothouse, its surface perpetually obscured by clouds of sulfur and carbon dioxides.[…] Every year, a few krogan attempt to land on Kruban and exit their ships naked in an attempt to prove their "kroganhood." The planet's surface is littered with the crushed, corroded remains of their ships. Only one, Shath Norda, is known to have returned from the surface alive, albeit with most of his bones crushed and all four of his lungs damaged by sulfuric gas.

For no body would staye to give them intelligence, the countrey people running evry wher out of ther waye, and some of them flying out of ther bedds nacked in their shirts, who runne to the neerest rockes on the sea syde; so formidable was ther very name.

This is the naked truth.

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

And after the past few days, in which a fleet of Republicans and the president himself have utilized Jews as human shields for racist rhetoric, the Jews are tired, tired, tired of being used as defenses against naked racism, tired of being used to justify conditions at detention camps. Just plain tired.

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