English

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

A model wearing what was described as a nude bra.

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?

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 1426800568), 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 160286117X), 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 1743348371):

     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 examples of usage of this term, see Citations:nude.

Synonyms

• (naked): naked, au naturel, bare, unclothed, undressed, exposed, in the buff
• (skin-colored): flesh-colored, skin-colored, carnation
• see also Wikisaurus:nude

Derived terms

• nudie

Related terms

• denude
• nudism
• nudist
• nudity

Translations

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

Translations

See also

• naturism
• skinny dipping
• birthday suit
• fig leaf

References

• “nude” (US) / “nude” (UK) in Oxford Dictionaries, Oxford University Press.

Anagrams

• dune

Italian

Adjective

nude

1. feminine plural of nudo

Anagrams

• dune

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

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈnu.de]

Adjective

nude

1. Feminine plural form of nud
2. Neuter plural form of nud