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nude

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of nude

lacking or shed of clothing

Picasso's paintings of nude art models

Synonyms of nude

au naturel, bare, bottomless, disrobed, mother-naked, naked, raw, starkers [chiefly British], stripped, unclad, unclothed, undressed

Words Related to nude

seminude, topless

denuded, peeled

Phrases Synonymous with nude

in the altogether (or the buff), stark naked

Near Antonyms of nude

covered, veiled

arrayed, caparisoned, decked (out), rigged (out), tricked (out)

Antonyms of nude

appareled (or apparelled), attired, clad, clothed, dressed, garbed, invested, robed, suited

Synonym Discussion of nude

bare, naked, nude, bald, barren mean deprived of naturally or conventionally appropriate covering. bare implies the removal of what is additional, superfluous, ornamental, or dispensable.

- an apartment with bare walls

naked suggests absence of protective or ornamental covering but may imply a state of nature, of destitution, or of defenselessness.

- poor half-naked children

nude applies especially to the unclothed human figure.

- a nude model posing for art students

bald implies actual or seeming absence of natural covering and may suggest a conspicuous bareness.

- a bald mountain peak

barren often suggests aridity or impoverishment or sterility.

- barren plains

nude

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of nude

the state of having no clothes on one's body

the artist painted some models in the nude

Synonyms of nude

altogether, bareness, birthday suit, bottomlessness, buff, nakedness, nudity, raw

Words Related to nude

naturism, nudism

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