Bare, not covered by clothing.
He was as naked as the day he was born.
Lacking some clothing; clothed only in underwear.
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.
Unadorned, without decoration or circumlocution; put bluntly.
This is the naked truth.
simple past and past participle of nake
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).
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