nude

nude

See also: nudě and nudę

English

Michelangelo's David is a well-known statue of a nude male.

A model wearing what was described as a nude bra.

Etymology

Entered English 1531 as a legal term, meaning "unsupported, not formally attested," from Latin nūdus (“naked, bare”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: n(y)o͞od, IPA^(key): /n(j)uːd/

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• Rhymes: -uːd

Adjective

nude (comparative nuder, superlative nudest)

1. Without clothing or other covering of the skin; without clothing on the genitals or female nipples.

   Why do you act so prudish whenever you see nude people?

   • 2019 December 19, Elaine McCahill, “I said no to 'Game of Thrones' nude scene, says 'Charlie' actress Sinead Watters”, Irish Independent: Charlie's breakout star Sinead Watters has revealed that she said no to a nude role in Game of Thrones.
2. (of clothing, makeup, etc) Of a color (such as beige or tan) that evokes bare flesh.
   • 2007, Brenda Janowitz, Scot On The Rocks, →ISBN, page 113:

     Vanessa always wore the same color on both her hands and feet—Hitchcock Blonde—a barely-there nude color with a dash of pink that was only two shades away from clear topcoat. It was the sort of thing you would imagine Grace Kelly in […]

   • 2010, Raquel Welch, Raquel: Beyond the Cleavage, →ISBN, page 143:

     It gave me a lovely, natural, but juicy color. To correct the shape of my mouth, I lined my lips with a nude color like MAC's Spice mixed with Mochaberry Automatic Lip Liner, blending the liner very carefully to make sure there was no hard edge.

   • 2012, Dilvin Yasa, Things My Daughter Needs to Know, →ISBN:

     Do not, under any circumstances (even if grunge is back in), wear a white or black bra under light-coloured clothing – only a nude bra will do.

   • 2016 June 2, "Company releases nude chest binder line for different skin tones", in the Washington Blade
   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:nude.
3. (law, obsolete) Not valid; void.
   • 1825, Sir William Hay Macnaghten, Principles and Precedents of Moohummudan Law:

     A void sale is that which can never take effect; in which the articles opposed to each other, or one of them, not bearing any legal value the contract is nude.

Synonyms

• (naked): See Thesaurus:nude
• (skin-colored): flesh-colored, skin-colored, carnation

Derived terms

• nudie
• nelfie

Related terms

• denude
• nudism
• nudist
• nudity

Translations

without clothing or other covering

Albanian: lakuriq (sq) Arabic: عَارٍ‎ (ʿārin), عُرْيَان‎ (ʿuryān) Egyptian Arabic: عريان‎ (ʿaryān) Armenian: մերկ (hy) (merk), տկլոր (hy) (tklor) Asturian: desnudu Azerbaijani: çılpaq (az), lüt (az), yalın, üryan Belarusian: голы (hóly) Bulgarian: гол (bg) (gol) Catalan: nu (ca) Cebuano: hubo Chamicuro: kolochoshko Cherokee: ᎤᏰᎸᎭᎢ (uyelvhai) Chinese: Mandarin: 赤裸 (zh) (chìluǒ), 裸 (zh) (luǒ) Czech: nahý (cs) Dalmatian: noid Danish: nøgen (da) Dutch: bloot (nl), naakt (nl) Estonian: alasti (et), paljas Faroese: nakin, berur Finnish: alaston (fi), paljas (fi) French: nu (fr) m Friulian: nûd, nût Galician: nu (gl) m, espido (gl), en coiro Georgian: შიშველი (šišveli) German: nackt (de), bloß (de) Gothic: 𐌽𐌰𐌵𐌰𐌸𐍃 (naqaþs) Greek: γυμνός (el) m (gymnós) Ancient: γυμνός (gumnós) Hebrew: ערום‎ (he) Hungarian: meztelen (hu), csupasz (hu), ruhátlan (hu), pucér Indonesian: telanjang (id) Irish: nocht Italian: nudo (it) Japanese: 裸の (ja) (はだかの, hadaka no) Korean: 나체의 (nache-ui), 벌거벗은 (beolgeobeos-eun) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: ڕوت‎ (rut) Latin: nudus Latvian: kails, pliks (lv) Lithuanian: nuogas (lt) Malay: telanjang, bogel Manx: lhome Maori: kirikau Mongolian: нүцгэн (mn) (nücgen) Navajo: ééʼ tʼáágééd Occitan: desnut Old English: nacod Pashto: بربنډ‎ (ps) (barbanḍ), لوڅ‎ (ps) (luś) Persian: برهنه‎ (fa), لخت‎ (fa) (loxt) Plautdietsch: noaktich Polish: nagi (pl) m, goły (pl) Portuguese: nu (pt), pelado (pt) Romanian: nud (ro), nudă f, gol (ro) m or n Russian: го́лый (ru) (gólyj), наго́й (ru) (nagój), обнажённый (ru) (obnažónnyj) Samoan: telefua Sardinian: nu, nuu, nuo, nudu, nutu Scottish Gaelic: lom, rùisgte, lomnochd Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: го̑, на̑г, го̑л Roman: gȏ (sh), nȃg (sh), gȏl (sh) Sicilian: nudu (scn), nuru (scn) Slovak: nahý Slovene: gòl (sl), nág (sl) Spanish: desnudo (es) Sundanese: ulutud Swedish: naken (sv), näck (sv) Tagalog: hubad (tl), lastag, hubut-hubad Tajik: бараҳна (tg) (barahna) Tetum: molik Thai: เปลือย (th) (bpleuay) Tibetan: དམར་ཧྲང་བ (dmar hrang ba) Tongan: telefua Turkish: çıplak (tr) Ukrainian: голий (holyj) Venetian: nuo, desnù Vietnamese: trần (vi), trần truồng (vi), khỏa thân (vi), lõa thể (vi) Volapük: nüdik (vo) Welsh: noethlymun (cy) Yoruba: ihoho

of color of bare skin

Bulgarian: с телесен цвят (s telesen cvjat) Dutch: vleeskleurig (nl) Finnish: ihonvärinen German: fleischfarben (de), hautfarben (de) Russian: телесный (ru) (telesnyj), телесного цвета (telesnovo cveta) Ukrainian: тілесний (tilesnyj)

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Noun

nude (plural nudes)

1. A painting, sculpture, photograph or other artwork or mass-media-reproduced image depicting one or more human figure(s) in a state of near or total undress.

   Michelangelo's David is a well-known standing male nude; Michelangelo also created several other nudes.

   Lexa sent me a nude last week.

2. (with article, "the nude") The state of total nudity.

   she caught him in the nude

3. A color that resembles or evokes bare flesh; a paint, dye, etc. of such color.
   • 2013, Debra, How to be a Man Magnet‎:

     What eye shadow looks best on my eye color? Brown eyes – Off whites, nudes, peaches, and purples.

Translations

image depicting a human in a state of undress

Bulgarian: гола фигура (gola figura) Danish: nøgenbillede n Dutch: naakt (nl) n Esperanto: nudo (eo), nudfoto (picture) Finnish: alastonkuva (fi) French: nu (fr) m Georgian: გაშიშვლებული ფიგურა (gašišvlebuli pigura) German: Akt (de) m Greek: γυμνό (el) n (gymnó) Hungarian: akt (hu) Italian: nudo (it) m Japanese: ヌード (nūdo) Korean: 나상 (nasang) Latvian: akts m Maori: takahore Norwegian: Bokmål: aktmaleri n Polish: akt (pl) m Portuguese: nude (pt) m or f Russian: ню (ru) n (nju) Spanish: desnudo (es) m Turkish: nüd Vietnamese: ảnh khỏa thân (vi), ảnh lõa thể (vi)

state of total nudity

Bulgarian: голота (bg) f (golota) Dutch: adamskostuum (nl) m, blootje (nl) n, flikker (nl) m Hungarian: meztelenség (hu), csupaszság (hu) Italian: nudità (it) f, costume adamitico m, abito adamitico m Turkish: çıplaklık (tr) Vietnamese: trạng thái khỏa thân (vi), trạng thái lõa thể (vi), trạng thái trần truồng (vi)

See also

• naturism
• skinny dipping
• birthday suit
• fig leaf

References

• “nude”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Anagrams

• Düne, dune, undé

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Interlingua

Etymology

Borrowed from English nude, Italian nudo, French nu and Spanish nudo/Portuguese nu (also desnudo and desnudo), all from Latin nūdus.

Adjective

nude (comparative plus nude, superlative le plus nude)

1. nude, naked, bare

Derived terms

• nuditate

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnu.de/
• Rhymes: -ude
• Hyphenation: nù‧de

Adjective

nude

1. feminine plural of nudo

Anagrams

• dune

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Latin

Adjective

nūde

1. vocative masculine singular of nūdus

References

• “nude”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

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Portuguese

Noun

nude (Brazil) m or (Portugal) f (plural nudes)

1. (Internet slang) nude (photograph of a naked person)

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Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈnu.de]

Adjective

nude

1. feminine/neuter plural of nud