naked

adjective18

1. •
   not covered by any clothes

   • He was as naked as the day he was born.
2. •
   Lacking some sort of covering, protection, or accoutrement which might otherwise be expected.

   • The tendrils of the naked flame stretched into the skies.
3. •
   Unaided; not using an optical device such as telescope or binoculars.
4. •
   Having no fur, feathers or scales on the skin; like a human.

   • We naked apes must be ever watchful for thorns and poison ivy as we hike the trail.
5. •
   Unsheathed, bare.

   • There was a knock at the door. “Enter,” said the princess. An officer appeared with his naked sword in his hand. — 1898
6. •
   Sold by someone who does not, at that time, own the underlying asset to cover the contract.
7. •
   Lacking some ingredient, component, or additive usually present.

   • a naked burrito (i.e. one without a tortilla)
   • Naked Bacon (a brand without nitrates or phosphates)
8. •
   Barren, having no foliage, unvegetated.
9. •
   Not hidden within an event horizon and thus observable from other parts of spacetime.
10. •
    (informal) Without a condom.

    • I entered her naked and came in her too.
11. •
    (figurative) Unadorned, without decoration or circumlocution; put bluntly.

    • This is the naked truth.
    • The naked facts lay there on the table, enclosed within the files.
12. •
    (figurative) Uncomfortable or vulnerable, as if missing something important.

    • I feel naked without my mobile phone.
13. •
    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. — 1666
14. •
    Lacking (something) or devoid (of something) [with of].

    • Freewill is made naked of all maner merite. — 1581
15. •
    (literary) Lacking resources or means, poor.

    • I am a poor Man, naked, / Yet something for Remembrance; four a piece, Gentlemen, / And so my Body where you please. — 1625
16. •
    (informal, no longer used) Lacking some clothing; clothed only in underwear.
17. •
    (no longer used) 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. — 1727
18. •
    (no longer used) Blank, clean, empty.

    • For in the first it finds the mind naked and unprepossessed with any former notions, and so easily and insensibly gains upon the assent, grows up with it, and incorporates into it. — 1660