nakedadjective
uk/ˈneɪ.kɪd/us/ˈneɪ.kɪd/naked adjective (NOT COVERED)
B2 not covered by clothes:
a naked man
naked bodies
stark naked (= completely naked)
US informal buck/butt naked (= completely naked)
He was naked to the waist (= not wearing clothes above his waist).
The children were half naked (= partly naked).
They stripped naked (= took off their clothes) and ran into the lake.
Something that is naked does not have its usual covering:
a naked flame/light bulb (= one with nothing surrounding or covering it)
a naked hillside (= one without trees or plants)
More examples
- He answered the door half naked.
- He was interrogated, stripped naked and then beaten.
- The children were splashing in the river, stark naked.
- Lying naked in the grass, among the trees and birds, he felt he had communed with nature.
- Standing there naked, I was suddenly struck by the absurdity of the situation.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Not wearing or removing clothes
- altogether
- bare
- barefoot
- bareheaded
- birthday
- buff
- commando
- fling
- in shirtsleeves idiom
- in the buff idiom
- in the raw idiom
- in your birthday suit idiom
- in your stocking(ed) feet idiom
- shuck
- shuck sth off
- slip
- slip out of sth
- starkers
- streak
- streaker
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Enclosing, surrounding and immersing
naked adjective (NOT HIDDEN)
C1 [ before noun ] A naked feeling or quality is not hidden, although it is bad:
naked aggression/greed
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Apparent and obvious
- apparent
- be (as) plain as the nose on your face idiom
- be (right) under your nose idiom
- be etched somewhere idiom
- be writ large idiom
- leap out at sb
- linear
- loud
- loud and clear idiom
- manifest
- manifestly
- marked
- nose
- recognizable
- self-evident
- shine
- shine out
- shine through
- speaks for itself idiom
- stark
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Idiom(s)
the naked eye