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naked

Pronunciation: /ˈneɪkɪd/

The English word “naked” has 18 meanings listed here.

adjective

  1. Bare, not covered by clothing.
  2. Lacking some clothing; clothed only in underwear.
  3. Unadorned, without decoration or circumlocution; put bluntly.
  4. Involving naked people.
  5. Unarmed.
  6. Lacking some sort of covering, protection, or accoutrement which might otherwise be expected.
  7. Unaided; not using an optical device such as telescope or binoculars.
  8. Having no fur, feathers or scales on the skin; like a human.
  9. Unsheathed, bare.
  10. Without a condom.
  11. Sold by someone who does not, at that time, own the underlying asset to cover the contract.
  12. Uncomfortable or vulnerable, as if missing something important.
  13. Lacking some ingredient, component, or additive usually present.
  14. Lacking resources or means, poor.
  15. Lacking (something) or devoid (of something) [with of].
  16. Blank, clean, empty.
  17. Barren, having no foliage, unvegetated.
  18. Not hidden within an event horizon and thus observable from other parts of spacetime.

Etymology

From Middle English naked, from Old English nacod, from Proto-West Germanic *nak(k)wad, from Proto-Germanic *nakwadaz, from Proto-Indo-European *negʷ- (“naked”). Doublet of nude (remotely).

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