naked
Meanings
adj
- Bare, not covered by clothing.
- Lacking some clothing; clothed only in underwear.
- Unadorned, without decoration or circumlocution; put bluntly.
- Involving naked people.
- Unarmed.
- Lacking some sort of covering, protection, or accoutrement which might otherwise be expected.
- Unaided; not using an optical device such as telescope or binoculars.
- Unsheathed, bare.
- Without a condom.
- Sold by someone who does not, at that time, own the underlying asset to cover the contract.
- Uncomfortable or vulnerable, as if missing something important.
- Lacking some ingredient, component, or additive usually present.
verb
- simple past and past participle of nake
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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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