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Definition of Naked
Naked
Having no clothes on; uncovered; nude; bare; as, a naked body; a naked limb; a naked sword.

Having no means of defense or protection; open; unarmed; defenseless.

Unprovided with needful or desirable accessories, means of sustenance, etc.; destitute; unaided; bare.

Without addition, exaggeration, or excuses; not concealed or disguised; open to view; manifest; plain.

Mere; simple; plain.

Without pubescence; as, a naked leaf or stem; bare, or not covered by the customary parts, as a flower without a perianth, a stem without leaves, seeds without a pericarp, buds without bud scales.

Not having the full complement of tones; -- said of a chord of only two tones, which requires a third tone to be sounded with them to make the combination pleasing to the ear; as, a naked fourth or fifth.


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Naked Quotations
We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.
Mother Teresa

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
Mark Twain

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
Steve Jobs

Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.
C. S. Lewis

Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.
Warren Buffett

I'm gonna put a curse on you and all your kids will be born completely naked.
Jimi Hendrix

All I'm writing is just what I feel, that's all. I just keep it almost naked. And probably the words are so bland.
Jimi Hendrix


A poem is a naked person... Some people say that I am a poet.
Bob Dylan

But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked.
Bob Dylan

My wife was afraid of the dark... then she saw me naked and now she's afraid of the light.
Rodney Dangerfield

The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity.
Carl Jung

Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.
William Blake

Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.
Galileo Galilei

I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
Tennessee Williams

A lot of people refuse to do things because they don't want to go naked, don't want to go without guarantee. But that's what's got to happen. You go naked until you die.
Nikki Giovanni

I often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packs more sex than two naked bodies in bed.
Bette Davis

Man's naked form belongs to no particular moment in history; it is eternal, and can be looked upon with joy by the people of all ages.
Auguste Rodin

Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism.
John Updike

There's very little advice in men's magazines, because men don't think there's a lot they don't know. Women do. Women want to learn. Men think, "I know what I'm doing, just show me somebody naked."
Jerry Seinfeld

We've been asked to do 'Playboy' together, me and Victoria, as a pair. I don't think I'll ever go naked, but I'll never say never.
David Beckham

At male strip shows, it is still the women that we watch, the audience of women and their eager faces. They are more obscene than if they were dancing naked themselves.
Jean Baudrillard

Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

If you see somebody running down the street naked every single day, you stop looking up.
Stevie Nicks

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked.
Allen Ginsberg

We've never played at this place before. This place is big, and I'm kinda nervous, so we're going to make it feel small by pretending we're in a... bedroom. We'll hang off the edge of the bed, take off our shoes and get naked!
Dave Matthews

I'm not photographing anything naked these days. I haven't been concentrating on bodies recently.
Robert Mapplethorpe

The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.
Bertolt Brecht

Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.
Joseph Conrad

Some of the evil of my tale may have been inherent in our circumstances. For years we lived anyhow with one another in the naked desert, under the indifferent heaven.
T. E. Lawrence

If I walk outside without lipstick, I feel naked.
Sofia Vergara

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Naked Translations
naked in Dutch is onopgesmukt, bloot, naakt, onbedekt
naked in Finnish is alaston
naked in German is kahl, nackt
naked in Hungarian is meztelen, csupasz
naked in Italian is spennato
naked in Portuguese is despido, nu
naked in Spanish is corito, desnudo
naked in Swedish is bar, blottad, naken






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