<p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>being without clothing or covering; nude: naked children swimming in the lake</li><li>Synonyms: undressed, uncovered</li><li>without adequate clothing: a naked little beggar</li><li>bare of any covering, overlying matter, vegetation, foliage, or the like: naked fields</li><li>bare, stripped, or destitute (usually followed by of): The trees were suddenly naked of leaves</li><li>Synonyms: denuded</li><li>without the customary covering, container, or protection: a naked sword; a naked flame</li><li>Synonyms: exposed</li><li>without carpets, hangings, or furnishings, as rooms or walls</li><li>(of the eye, sight, etc.) unassisted by a microscope, telescope, or other instrument: visible to the naked eye</li><li>defenseless; unprotected; exposed: naked to invaders</li><li>Synonyms: open, unarmed</li><li>plain; simple; unadorned: the naked realities of the matter</li><li>not accompanied or supplemented by anything else: a naked outline of the facts</li><li>exposed to view or plainly revealed: the naked threat in the letter; a naked vein of coal</li><li>Synonyms: patent, obvious, manifest, evident, blatant</li><li>plain-spoken; blunt: the naked truth</li><li>Synonyms: unvarnished, stark, simple</li><li>Law: unsupported, as by authority or consideration: a naked promise</li><li>Botany: (of seeds) not enclosed in an ovary</li><li>(of flowers) without a calyx or perianth</li><li>(of stalks, branches, etc.) without leaves</li><li>(of stalks, leaves, etc.) without hairs or pubescence</li><li>Zoology: having no covering of hair, feathers, shell, etc.</li></ul>