naked
/ˈnɛkɪd/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.43 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Unadorned, without decoration or circumlocution; put bluntly.
adj
Lacking some sort of covering, protection, or accoutrement which might otherwise be expected.
adj
Lacking some sort of covering, protection, or accoutrement which might otherwise be expected.
adj
Lacking some sort of covering, protection, or accoutrement which might otherwise be expected.
Example Sentences
- "He was as naked as the day he was born."
- "Christ commeth not bare or naked, but clothed and accompanied with all his mercies."
- "Smooth and slender and naked, Mary Rittersdorf faced her husband."
- "Kruban is a tidally-locked Venusian hothouse, its surface perpetually obscured by clouds of sulfur and carbon dioxides.[…] Every year, a few krogan attempt to land on Kruban and exit their ships naked in an attempt to prove their "kroganhood." The planet's surface is littered with the crushed, corroded remains of their ships. Only one, Shath Norda, is known to have returned from the surface alive, albeit with most of his bones crushed and all four of his lungs damaged by sulfuric gas."
- "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."
- "This is the naked truth."
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).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈnɛkɪd/
Usage
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Botany.
Inflected Forms
more naked (comparative)
most naked (superlative)