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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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In July 2006, Manhattan prosecutors charged Doyle with the theft of a bronze sculpture of a nude dancer by French impressionist Edgar Degas valued at $600,000.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 11, 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

At the same time, scholars and collectors are taking a new look at artists who were previously excluded from the canon because of the naturalistic, warts-and-all approach they took to the nude.

From New York Times • Apr. 3, 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