naked

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments (4)  · 
“
He drank for many of the last years of his life great quantities of rum and brandy, which he called the naked truth_; and if, in compliance to other gentlemen, he drank claret or punch, he always took an equal quantity of spirits to qualify those liquors: this he called a wedge.

View all »
Definitions (49)

Toggle American Heritage definitions American Heritage Dictionary (11)

  1. adjective Having no clothing on the body; nude.
  2. adjective Having no covering, especially the usual one: a naked sword.
  3. adjective Devoid of vegetation, trees, or foliage: the naked ground; naked tree limbs.
8 more from this dictionary »

Toggle Century definitions Century Dictionary (31)

Toggle GNU Webster definitions GNU Webster's 1913 (2)

Toggle WordNet definitions WordNet (5)

Toggle elsewhere links Elsewhere on the web

View all »
Examples (50)

  • She was half-naked, her breasts gleaming in the light from the small lamp. —  VC Andrews - Broken Wings
  • It was a man's body -- naked, presumably, though there was so much frost inside the glass that much of him was merely a pink blur. —  F ;SF; - vol 090 issue 04 - April 1996
  • As it was Saturday my colleagues chanced it and we all went naked, and never met anybody until we reached the showers, where we had decided on going after the toilets. —  XXXX
  • It's a good thing we had got used to being seen naked and semi-naked, because we'd be nervous wrecks by then otherwise. —  XXXX
  • Instead he waited while I hoisted myself onto my trembling legs and stood there naked, a piteous sight, surely, in front of this broadly built adult, this figure of ultimate authority in my life You tried to write a letter All I could do was nod For that you will be punished. —  XXXX
More examples »
 

Tags

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Stats

This word has been looked up 227 times.

stop updating
On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images

Add a related word »
Related

Roget's II Roget's II: The New Thesaurus

Allen's Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms

Used in the same context Used in the Same Context

bare ·  beautiful ·  helpless ·  wild ·  raw
Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary. Copyright © 2003, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Etymologies (2)

Toggle American Heritage etymologies American Heritage Dictionary (1)

  1. Middle English, from Old English nacod; see nogw- in Indo-European roots.

Toggle Century etymologies Century Dictionary (1)

  1. from Middle English naked, from Anglo-Saxon nacod, naced, naked (later næced, nakedness), = OFries. nakad, naked = Dutch naakt = Middle Low German naket, nakent, nakendich = Low German naked, nakd = Old High German nacchut, nahhut, nachot, Middle High German nacket, nackent, German nackt, nackend (dial. also nackig, nachtig) = Icelandic nökvidhr, later naktr = Goth, nakwaths = Irish nochd = Welsh noeth = Latin nūlus (for *novdus, *nogvidus?) (later Italian Spanish Portuguese nudo = French nu = English nude), also with different termination OFries. naken = Icelandic nakinn = Swedish naken = Danish nögen = Sanskrit nagna, naked; these being apparently orig. past participle forms in -ed and - en respectively; but no verb appears in the earliest records (the verb nake being a back formation, of later origin); also, akin to Old Bulgarian nagŭ = Servian nag = Bohemian nahy = Polish nagi = Russian nagoĭ = Lithuanian nogas = Lettish nōks, naked; root unknown.
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »
/ˈneɪkɛd/
by American Heritage

Charts
frequency chart

Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year

Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed

You can expect to see this word a few times a week.

Recently looked up

abjectly · pneumatic · entertain · testis · bushels

Recent Favorites

pygopagus · sanglant · Astacus · sweetbread · qualms

Recent Pronunciations

Der dicke Dachdecker deckte dir dein Dach, drum dank dem dicken Dachdecker, dass der dicke Dachdecker dir dein Dach deckte. · weitläufig · und wenn sie nicht gestorben sind, so leben sie noch heute · redescheu · selbstverständlich