nude

Entered English 1493 as a legal term, meaning "unsupported, not formally attested," from Middle English nud, from Latin nūdus (“naked, bare”).

• enPR: n(y)o͞od, IPA^(key): /n(j)uːd/

  • Audio (Southern England):

    (file)

• Rhymes: -uːd

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?

   • 2019 December 19, Elaine McCahill, “I said no to 'Game of Thrones' nude scene, says 'Charlie' actress Sinead Watters”, Irish Independent: Charlie's breakout star Sinead Watters has revealed that she said no to a nude role in Game of Thrones.
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, 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, 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:

     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 Washington Blade‎^[1]:
   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:nude.
3. (law, archaic) Not valid; 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 is nude.

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

• denude
• nudism
• nudist
• nudity

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

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.

• naturism
• skinny dipping
• birthday suit
• fig leaf

• “nude”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

• Düne, dune, undé

Borrowed from English nude, Italian nudo, French nu and Spanish nudo/Portuguese nu (also desnudo and desnudo), all from Latin nūdus.

nude (comparative plus nude, superlative le plus nude)

1. nude, naked, bare

• nuditate

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

nude

1. feminine plural of nudo

• dune

nūde

1. vocative masculine singular of nūdus

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

nude

1. optative active singular of nudati (“to push”)

nude (Brazil) m or (Portugal) f (plural nudes)

1. (Internet slang) nude (photograph of a naked person)

• IPA^(key): [ˈnu.de]

nude

1. feminine/neuter plural of nud

Unadapted borrowing from English nude.

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

nude f (plural nudes)

1. nude (a photograph of a naked person)

   Juan me envió una nude la semana pasada.

   Juan sent me a nude last week.

According to Royal 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.