nude
adjective /njuːd/
/nuːd/
- (especially of a human figure in art) not wearing any clothes synonym naked
- She worked as a nude model in an artist's studio.
- He asked me to pose nude for him.
Extra Examples- He refused to appear nude in the movie.
- She was lying nude on a beach towel.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- lie
- sit
- …
- completely
- totally
- nearly
- …
- involving people who are not wearing any clothes
- He had a collection of nude photographs in his studio.
- Are there any nude scenes in the movie?
- Some of the resorts allow nude sunbathing on the beaches.
- (North American English) (of pantyhose, etc.) skin-coloured
Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘plain, explicit’): from Latin nudus. The current sense is first found in noun use in the early 18th cent.