# naked

Pronunciation: say "NAY-kid" /ˈneɪkɪd/

## Adjective

1. Not wearing any clothes, with the body uncovered; also showing or involving people with no clothes on.
   - Simple: Not wearing any clothes, or showing people who have no clothes on.
   - _The swimmers dove into the lake naked under the moonlight._
   - _Classical sculptors often depicted naked figures to celebrate the human form._
2. Functioning without the aid of an instrument or external assistance.
   - Simple: Used without any tool or help, like seeing with just your eyes.
   - _Under dark skies, the faint comet was just visible to the naked eye._
   - _Many bacteria are far too small to detect with the naked eye._
3. Without its usual covering or protection; bare and exposed, such as a naked flame, a naked wire or rock bare of plants.
   - Simple: Without the normal cover, so it is bare or open to harm.
   - _Workers must never handle a naked electrical cable without insulated gloves._
   - _A naked flame in the laboratory posed a serious fire risk._
4. Stated plainly and without softening or decoration; blunt and undisguised.
   - Simple: Plain and open, with nothing hidden, softened, or made to look nicer.
   - _The report laid out the naked facts of the company's collapse._
   - _There was naked ambition in the way he chased the promotion._
5. Feeling exposed or vulnerable, as though deprived of something that gives comfort or protection.
   - Simple: Feeling open and unsafe, as if something important is missing.
   - _Stripped of his usual confidence, he felt utterly naked before the committee._
   - _Having left his phone at home, he felt oddly naked all through the long train ride._
6. Served or made without additives, or without some component that would normally be included.
   - Simple: Made or served without the extra parts or ingredients usually added.
   - _Trying to cut carbs, he ordered a naked burger wrapped in lettuce instead of a bun._
   - _She ordered her burrito naked, with the rice, beans, and salsa served in a bowl instead of a tortilla._
7. Not fully clothed; wearing only underwear or undergarments. *(colloquial)*
   - Simple: Wearing only underwear, not fully dressed.
8. Lacking or entirely without something, used with the preposition "of."
   - Simple: Without a certain thing, having none of it at all.
   - _The plain stretched out before them, naked of any landmark._
   - _Her statement was naked of detail, leaving the police with little to follow._
9. Engaging in sexual contact without the protection of a condom.
   - Simple: Done during sex without using a condom.
10. Lacking resources or means; destitute and stripped of any wealth to fall back on. *(literary)*
   - Simple: Having very little money or few things to live on, and very poor.

## Adjective

11. Blank, clean, or empty; bearing no marks, writing, or contents. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: Having nothing written or marked on it, completely empty.
12. Without weapons or defensive arms; unarmed. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: Having no weapons to fight or defend with.

## Other meanings

- (adjective) Of an option or short sale: not backed by a holding or offsetting position in the underlying asset, or, for a short sale, by borrowed securities; uncovered.
- (adjective) Of a gravitational singularity: not hidden inside an event horizon, and so in principle visible from other parts of spacetime.
- (verb) Simple past and past participle of nake.

## Origin

"Naked" comes from Middle English "naked," from Old English "nacod," going back through Proto-Germanic "*nakwadaz" to the Proto-Indo-European root "*negʷ-" meaning "naked." It is a doublet of "nude" and of "naan" (the latter connection being uncertain).

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/naked (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).