Synonyms for naked
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : ney-kid |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈneɪ kɪd |
Top 10 synonyms for naked Other synonyms for the word naked
- bare-skinned
- bared
- barren
- denuded
- disclosed
- discovered
- disrobed
- divested
- dry
- in birthday suit
- in dishabille
- in the altogether
- in the buff
- in the raw
- leafless
- matter-of-fact
- natural
- obvious
- open
- overt
- palpable
- patent
- peeled
- plain
- pure
- revealed
- sheer
- simple
- stark
- stark-naked
- stripped
- threadbare
- unadorned
- unclad
- unclothed
- unconcealed
- uncovered
- undisguised
- undraped
- undressed
- unexaggerated
- unmistakable
- unprotected
- unqualified
- unvarnished
- unveiled
- vulnerable
- without a stitch
Définition of naked
Origin :- Old English nacod "nude, bare; empty," also "not fully clothed," from Proto-Germanic *nakwathaz (cf. Old Frisian nakad, Middle Dutch naket, Dutch naakt, Old High German nackot, German nackt, Old Norse nökkviðr, Old Swedish nakuþer, Gothic naqaþs "naked"), from PIE root *nogw- "naked" (cf. Sanskrit nagna, Hittite nekumant-, Old Persian *nagna-, Greek gymnos, Latin nudus, Lithuanian nuogas, Old Church Slavonic nagu-, Russian nagoi, Old Irish nocht, Welsh noeth "bare, naked"). Related: Nakedly; nakedness. Applied to qualities, actions, etc., from late 14c. (first in "The Cloud of Unknowing"); phrase naked truth is from 1585, in Alexander Montgomerie's "The Cherry and the Slae":
- Which thou must (though it grieve thee) grantI trumped never a man.But truely told the naked trueth,To men that meld with mee,For neither rigour, nor for rueth,But onely loath to lie.[Montgomerie, 1585]
- Phrase naked as a jaybird (1943) was earlier naked as a robin (1879, in a Shropshire context); the earliest known comparative based on it was naked as a needle (late 14c.). Naked eye is from 1660s, unnecessary in the world before telescopes and microscopes.
- adj without covering
- adj manifest, evident
- He was naked save for a linen under shirt and pair of woollen drawers.
- Extract from : « The White Company » by Arthur Conan Doyle
- In "Lear," Shakespeare was intent on expressing his own disillusion and naked misery.
- Extract from : « The Man Shakespeare » by Frank Harris
- The people will see beneath the false pretense the bare, naked facts.
- Extract from : « Government by the Brewers? » by Adolph Keitel
- Simba accepted the glasses, but first took a good look with the naked eye.
- Extract from : « The Leopard Woman » by Stewart Edward White
- His shirt and hand, and even his naked arm, were stained and blotched with blood.
- Extract from : « Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates » by Howard Pyle
- The naked flats were very wide, and we sallied out, with the bridge as our guide.
- Extract from : « Ned Myers » by James Fenimore Cooper
- Commerce, better than Charity, feeds the hungry and clothes the naked.
- Extract from : « Alice, or The Mysteries, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- Life's naked brutalities had theretofore been largely out of his ken.
- Extract from : « The Black Bag » by Louis Joseph Vance
- He slipped the cloak from his shoulders and stood like Lorenzi, lean and naked.
- Extract from : « Casanova's Homecoming » by Arthur Schnitzler
- He did so, and returned, "that there was a man sitting upright, as naked as ever he was born."
- Extract from : « Joseph Andrews Vol. 1 » by Henry Fielding
Antonyms for naked
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