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BARE, NAKED, NUDE, BALD, BARREN mean deprived of naturally or conventionally appropriate covering.

BARE implies the removal of what is additional, superfluous, ornamental, or dispensable.

e.g. an apartment with bare walls

NAKED suggests absence of protective or ornamental covering but may imply a state of nature, of destitution, or of defenselessness.

e.g. poor half-naked children

NUDE applies especially to the unclothed human figure.

e.g. a nude model posing for art students

BALD implies actual or seeming absence of natural covering and may suggest a conspicuous bareness.

e.g. a bald mountain peak

BARREN often suggests aridity or impoverishment or sterility.

e.g. barren plains

NAKED and BARE mean being without a natural or usual covering.

NAKED is used when there is neither protective nor ornamental covering.

e.g. She was holding a naked baby.

BARE is used when there is no unnecessary covering or when all covering has been removed.

e.g. Let's hang some pictures on the bare walls.

1. (of a person or part of the body) without clothes:

〈人が〉裸の, 全裸の(→ bare); 〈体の一部が〉露出した; 〖名詞の前で〗裸体の〈写真など〉(nude)

e.g. he'd never seen a naked woman before

e.g. he was stripped naked.

(of an object) without the usual covering or protection:

〖通例名詞の前で〗むき出しの, むき出しになった〈物〉; 不毛の, 草木の生えていない〈土地〉; 葉のない〈木･枝など〉; 露出した〈岩など〉; 装飾品［家具類］のない〈部屋･壁など〉

e.g. her room was lit by a single naked bulb.

(of a tree, plant, or animal) without leaves, hairs, scales, shell, etc.:

〘動〙 〈動物が〉毛［羽, うろこ, 殻］のない; 〈種子が〉子房に覆われていない; 〈花が〉萼（がく）［被子］のない; 〈茎･枝が〉葉のない; 〈茎･葉が〉軟毛のない 〘植〙

e.g. the twisted trunks and naked branches of the trees.

exposed to harm; unprotected or vulnerable:

〈人が〉 【攻撃･非難などに】無力の, 無防備の, さらされた «to»

e.g. John looked naked and defenseless without his glasses.

2. attributive (of something such as feelings or behavior) undisguised; blatant:

〖名詞の前で〗あからさまな, 露骨な, ありのままの〈行為･態度･言葉など〉; ｟書｠ 明白な, すぐにそれとわかる〈感情など〉

e.g. the naked truth

e.g. naked, unprovoked aggression.

unassisted vision, without a telescope, microscope, or other device:

e.g. through his telescope Galileo observed myriads of stars invisible to the naked eye

e.g. threadworm eggs are so small that they cannot be seen with the naked eye.

nakedly |ˈnākidlē| adverb

Old English nacod, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch naakt and German nackt, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin nudus and Sanskrit nagna.