naked
pronunciation
How to pronounce naked in British English:
UK [ˈneɪkɪd]
How to pronounce naked in American English:
US [ˈneɪkɪd]
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- Adjective:
- completely unclothed
- having no protecting or concealing cover
- (of the eye or ear e.g.) without the aid of an optical or acoustical device or instrument
- devoid of elaboration or diminution or concealment; bare and pure
Word Origin
- naked
- naked: [OE] Naked goes back ultimately to Indo- European *nogw- ‘unclothed’, which also produced Latin nūdus (source of English nude [16]) and Russian nagój ‘naked’. The past participial form derived from this, *nogwedhos, passed into prehistoric Germanic as *naquethaz, which has subsequently differentiated to German nackt, Dutch naakt, Swedish naken, Danish nøgen, and English naked.=> nude
- naked (adj.)
- Old English nacod "nude, bare; empty," also "not fully clothed," from Proto-Germanic *nakwadaz (cognates: Old Frisian nakad, Middle Dutch naket, Dutch naakt, Old High German nackot, German nackt, Old Norse nökkviðr, Old Swedish nakuþer, Gothic naqaþs "naked"), from PIE root *nogw- "naked" (cognates: Sanskrit nagna, Hittite nekumant-, Old Persian *nagna-, Greek gymnos, Latin nudus, Lithuanian nuogas, Old Church Slavonic nagu-, Russian nagoi, Old Irish nocht, Welsh noeth "bare, naked"). Related: Nakedly; nakedness. Applied to qualities, actions, etc., from late 14c. (first in "The Cloud of Unknowing"); phrase naked truth is from 1585, in Alexander Montgomerie's "The Cherry and the Slae": Which thou must (though it grieve thee) grant I trumped never a man. But truely told the naked trueth, To men that meld with mee, For neither rigour, nor for rueth, But onely loath to lie. [Montgomerie, 1585] Phrase naked as a jaybird (1943) was earlier naked as a robin (1879, in a Shropshire context); the earliest known comparative based on it was naked as a needle (late 14c.). Naked eye is from 1660s, unnecessary in the world before telescopes and microscopes.
Example
- 1. Naked short selling is often a speculative trade .
- 2. It was like going camping , but naked .
- 3. Being naked in a dream indicates open and honest expression .
- 4. He threshes you to make you naked .
- 5. Such naked protectionism may violate international trade rules .