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Naked   /nˈeɪkəd/   Listen
adjective
Naked  adj.  
1.
Having no clothes on; uncovered; nude; bare; as, a naked body; a naked limb; a naked sword.
2.
Having no means of defense or protection; open; unarmed; defenseless; as, naked to invasion. "Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies." "Thy power is full naked." "Behold my bosom naked to your swords."
3.
Unprovided with needful or desirable accessories, means of sustenance, etc.; destitute; unaided; bare. "Patriots who had exposed themselves for the public, and whom they saw now left naked."
4.
Without addition, exaggeration, or excuses; not concealed or disguised; open to view; manifest; plain. "The truth appears so naked on my side, That any purblind eye may find it out." "All things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do."
5.
Mere; simple; plain; as, the naked truth. "The very naked name of love."
6.
(Bot.) Without pubescence; as, a naked leaf or stem; bare, or not covered by the customary parts, as a flower without a perianth, a stem without leaves, seeds without a pericarp, buds without bud scales.
7.
(Mus.) Not having the full complement of tones; said of a chord of only two tones, which requires a third tone to be sounded with them to make the combination pleasing to the ear; as, a naked fourth or fifth.
Naked bed, a bed the occupant of which is naked, no night linen being worn in ancient times.
Naked eye, the eye alone, unaided by eyeglasses, or by telescope, microscope, or other magnifying device.
Naked-eyed medusa. (Zool.) See Hydromedusa.
Naked flooring (Carp.), the timberwork which supports a floor.
Naked mollusk (Zool.), a nudibranch.
Naked wood (Bot.), a large rhamnaceous tree (Colibrina reclinata) of Southern Florida and the West Indies, having a hard and heavy heartwood, which takes a fine polish.
Synonyms: Nude; bare; denuded; uncovered; unclothed; exposed; unarmed; plain; defenseless.






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"Naked" Quotes from Famous Books



... understanding. He saw that all the figures around him were naked to the waist, and therefore pulled off shirt as well as jacket, but not quickly enough to prevent a stroke, which hissed down on his shoulders and made him set his teeth with anguish. The man beside him uttered ...
— The Blue Pavilions • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

... full vigor. There is Brutus, having chopped his son's head off, with all the agony of a father, and then, calling for number two; there is AEneas carrying off old Anchises; there are Paris and Venus, as naked as two Hottentots, and many more such ...
— The Paris Sketch Book Of Mr. M. A. Titmarsh • William Makepeace Thackeray

... said, making a small adjustment on the screen, "you and countless other atavisms are reacting in a very predictable way. Since you can't reconcile the naked Ankorbades and their superior technology, and since they are alien to point of showing no interest whatsoever in our elaborate ...
— Unspecialist • Murray F. Yaco

... only time it is ever opened at either end of the journey is when, in addition to the articles previously mentioned, it contains bottles. But I do not carry it for the sake of bottles; far from it. I am one of those men who do not mind going about with a comparatively naked bottle. I carry it simply because it is the tool of my trade, and because, if you don't carry a tool of some kind on the Underground, at any moment you may be taken for an idle rich, if not actually a parasite, who never sweated ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, April 7, 1920 • Various

... whence Reinforcements are to be drawn. A third Part of his Continental Troops, he tells us, consists "of Boys Negroes & aged Men not fit for the Field or any other Service." "A very great Part of the Army naked—without Blanketts—ill armed and very deficient in Accoutrements: without a Prospect of Reliefe." "Many, too Many of the Officers wod be a Disgrace to the most contemptible Troops that ever was collected." The Exertions of others of them of a different Character "counteracted by the worthless." ...
— The Writings of Samuel Adams, vol. III. • Samuel Adams


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