nude

See also:nuděandnudę

English

Michelangelo'sDavidis a well-known statue of anudemale.

A model wearing what was described as anudebra.

Etymology

Entered English 1493 as a legal term, meaning "unsupported, not formally attested," fromMiddle Englishnud,fromLatinnūdus(“naked, bare”).

Pronunciation

• enPR:n(y)o͞od,IPA^(key):/n(j)uːd/

  • Audio(Southern England):

    (file)

• Rhymes:-uːd

Adjective

nude(comparativenuder,superlativenudest)

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

   Why do you act so prudish whenever you seenudepeople?

   • 2019December 19, Elaine McCahill, “I said no to 'Game of Thrones'nudescene, says 'Charlie' actress Sinead Watters”,Irish Independent:Charlie's breakout star Sinead Watters has revealed that she said no to anuderole in Game of Thrones.
2. (of clothing, makeup, etc)Of a color (such asbeigeortan) that evokesbareflesh.
   • 2007,Brenda Janowitz,Scot On The Rocks,→ISBN,page113:

     Vanessa always wore the same color on both her hands and feet—Hitchcock Blonde—a barely-therenudecolor 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,page143:

     It gave me a lovely, natural, but juicy color. To correct the shape of my mouth, I lined my lips with anudecolor 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 anudebra will do.

   • 2016June 2, “Company releasesnudechest binder line for different skin tones”, inWashington Blade‎^[1]:
   • For more quotations using this term, seeCitations:nude.
3. (law,archaic)Notvalid;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 isnude.

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

• nelfie
• never-nude
• non-nude
• nude beach
• nude number
• nude pact
• nude run
• nudie
• Rowett nude rat
• semi-nude

Related terms

• denude
• nudism
• nudist
• nudity

Translations

without clothing or other covering

• Albanian:lakuriq(sq)
• Arabic:عَارٍ(ʕārin),عُرْيَان(ʕuryān)

  Egyptian Arabic:عريان(ʕaryān)

• 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:Trần trụi(zh)(chìluǒ),Lỏa(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(hu)
• Indonesian:telanjang(id)
• Irish:nocht
• Italian:nudo(it)
• Japanese:Lỏa(ja)(はだか, hadaka),Lỏa の(ja)(はだか の, hadaka no)
• Korean:나체(ko)(nache),알몸(ko)(almom),벌거벗은(beolgeobeoseun)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish:ڕوت(rut)

• Latin:nudus
• Latvian:kails(lv),pliks(lv)
• Lithuanian:nuogas(lt)
• Malay:telanjang,bogel(ms)
• Manx:lhome
• Maori:kirikau
• Marathi:नग्न(nagna)
• Mongolian:нүцгэн(mn)(nücgen)
• Navajo:ééʼ tʼáágééd
• Occitan:desnut
• Old English:nacod
• Ottoman Turkish:عریان(ʼuryan)
• Pashto:بربنډ(ps)(barbanḍ),لوڅ(ps)(luś)
• Persian:برهنه(phát),لخت(phát)(loxt)
• Plautdietsch:noaktich
• Polish:nagi(pl)m,goły(pl)
• Portuguese:nu(pt),pelado(pt)
• Romanian:nud(ro),nudăf,gol(ro)morn
• 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)
• Venetan: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)
• Polish:cielisty(pl)
• Russian:телесный(ru)(telesnyj),телесного цвета(telesnovo cveta)
• Ukrainian:тілесний(tilesnyj)

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Noun

nude(pluralnudes)

1. Apainting,sculpture,photographor otherartworkor mass-media-reproduced image depicting one or more human figure(s) in a state of near or totalundress.

   Michelangelo's David is a well-known standing malenude;Michelangelo also created several othernudes.

   Lexa sent me anudelast week.

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

   she caught himinthe 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^[2]:

     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)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese:Lỏa chiếu(lo²ziu³)

  Mandarin:Lỏa chiếu(zh)(luǒzhào)

• Danish:nøgenbilleden
• 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(ja)(nūdo)
• Korean:나상(nasang),누드(nudeu)
• Latvian:aktsm
• Maori:takahore
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål:aktmalerin

• Polish:akt(pl)m
• Portuguese:nude(pt)morf
• Russian:ню(ru)n(nju)
• Spanish:nude(es)f
• Turkish:nü(tr)
• 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 adamiticom,abito adamiticom
• 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”,inLexico,Dictionary;Oxford University Press,2019–2022.

Anagrams

• Düne,dune,undé

Interlingua

Etymology

Borrowed fromEnglishnude,Italiannudo,FrenchnuandSpanishnudo/Portuguesenu(alsodesnudoanddesnudo), all fromLatinnūdus.

Adjective

nude(comparativeplusnude,superlativeleplusnude)

1. nude,naked,bare

Derived terms

• nuditate

Italian

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

nude

1. femininepluralofnudo

Anagrams

• dune

Latin

Adjective

nūde

1. vocativemasculinesingularofnūdus

References

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

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

• 𑀦𑀼𑀤𑁂(Brahmi script)
• नुदे(Devanagari script)
• নুদে(Bengali script)
• නුදෙ(Sinhalese script)
• နုဒေorၼုၻေ(Burmese script)
• นุเท(Thai script)
• ᨶᩩᨴᩮ(Tai Tham script)
• ນຸເທ(Lao script)
• នុទេ(Khmer script)
• 𑄚𑄪𑄘𑄬(Chakma script)

Verb

nude

1. optativeactivesingularofnudati(“to push”)

Portuguese

Noun

nude(Brazil)mor(Portugal)f(pluralnudes)

1. (Internetslang)nude(photographof anakedperson)

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):[ˈnu.de]

Adjective

nude

1. feminine/neuterpluralofnud

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowingfromEnglishnude.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/ˈnude/[ˈnu.ð̞e]
  • Rhymes:-ude
  • Syllabification:nu‧de
• IPA^(key):/ˈnjud/[ˈnjuð̞]
  • Rhymes:-ud

Noun

nudef(pluralnudes)

1. nude(a photograph of a naked person)

   Juan me envió unanudela semana pasada.

   Juan sent me anudelast week.

Usage notes

According toRoyal Spanish Academy(RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.