half-naked
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.39 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
With very few clothes on.
Example Sentences
- "Tim dressed himself in rags yesterday, and went out disguised as a beggar half-naked and without shoes or stockings. He robbed a gentleman and a lady of a watch and a purse."
- "[…] going about the county half-naked, but having good clothes, perhaps sent forward to the lodging-house by his jomer (girl); this is very often a profitable trade; the shallow-cove of course selling all the clothes he does not need himself."
- "Back there in the rolling, olive-clad hills is a splendid region of whose existence most of the visitors to the Riviera are unaware. There are no garish restaurants or casinos, no hot doggeries or Slopsy-kola signs, no half-naked women or twitching varicose veins being paraded."
Etymology
From Middle English half naked, from Old English healfnacod, from Proto-Germanic *halbanakwadaz; equivalent to half- + naked.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
half naked (alternative)
Phrases
half-nakedly
half-nakedness