naked

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   lacking any cover

   naked branches of the trees

2. 2
   adj

   having no protecting or concealing cover

   naked to mine enemies- Shakespeare

3. 3
   adj

   (of the eye or ear e.g.) without the aid of an optical or acoustical device or instrument

   visible to the naked eye

4. 4
   adj

   Bare, not covered by clothing.

   He was as naked as the day he was born.

5. 5
   adj

   Lacking some clothing; clothed only in underwear.

   For no body would staye to give them intelligence, the countrey people running evry wher out of ther waye, and some of them flying out of ther bedds nacked in their shirts, who runne to the neerest rockes on the sea syde; so formidable was ther very name.

6. 6
   adj

   Unadorned, without decoration or circumlocution; put bluntly.

   This is the naked truth.

7. 7
   adj

   Involving naked people.

   So here I went the first time into a naked bed, only my drawers on; and did sleep pretty well: but still both sleeping and waking had a fear of fire in my heart, that I took little rest.

8. 8
   adj

   Unarmed.

   You an’t even with me yet, ſays ſhe; I ſcorn as much to take up a Sword againſt a Naked Man; as you ought to have ſcorn’d, if you had been a Gentleman, to give the Lie to a Woman.

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).