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Definitions

nude

[nood, nyood] / nud, nyud /

ADJECTIVE

without clothes, covering

Synonyms

STRONGEST

naked

STRONG

dishabille in the buff raw skin

WEAK

au naturel bald bare bare-skinned buck naked disrobed exposed garmentless in one's birthday suit in one's skin in the altogether peeled stark stark naked stripped unattired unclad unclothed uncovered undraped undressed wearing only a smile without a stitch

Antonyms

WEAK

clothed covered

Example Sentences

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The previous record for a Michelangelo was a $24.3 million drawing of a nude man that Christie’s sold in 2022.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 5, 2026

Supermodel Heidi Klum got tongues wagging on the red carpet while taking comically short steps in a nude latex dress.

From BBC • Feb. 2, 2026

Who knows what prompted Camille Claudel, at 20, to take a blade to the clay model of her sculpture of a headless crouching nude, tilting to one side and balanced precariously on rough feet?

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 9, 2024

Melania Trump spoke out on her history of nude modeling for the first time on Wednesday.

From Salon • Sep. 18, 2024

To him, only the heroic male nude possessed the physical monumentality necessary to express the awesome power of figures such as this mythical prophetess.

From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.