Definition of "naked" in Anglais

adjective

1. Bare, not covered by clothing.

   • He was as naked as the day he was born.

2. (obsolete or colloquial) Lacking some clothing; clothed only in underwear.

3. (figuratively) Unadorned, without decoration or circumlocution; put bluntly.

   • This is the naked truth.
   • The naked facts lay there on the table, enclosed within the files.

4. (of a setting or situation) Involving naked people.

5. (obsolete) Unarmed.

6. Lacking some sort of covering, protection, or accoutrement which might otherwise be expected.

   • The tendrils of the naked flame stretched into the skies.

7. (literary) Lacking resources or means, poor.

8. Lacking (something) or devoid (of something) [with of].

9. (obsolete) Blank, clean, empty.

10. (of land, rocks, or plants) Barren, having no foliage, unvegetated.

11. (physics, of a singularity) Not hidden within an event horizon and thus observable from other parts of spacetime.

verb

1. simple past and past participle of nake