nude

• POS: Adjective, Noun

CIDE DICTIONARY

nude, a. [L. nudus. See Naked.].

•  Bare; naked; unclothed; undraped; as, a nude statue.  [1913 Webster]
•  Naked; without consideration; void; as, a nude contract. See Nudum pactum.  Blackstone.  [1913 Webster]

The nude, the undraped human figure in art.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

nude, adj. & n.
--adj. naked, bare, unclothed.
--n.
1 a painting, sculpture, photograph, etc. of a nude human figure; such a figure.
2 a nude person.
3 (prec. by the) a an unclothed state. b the representation of an undraped human figure as a genre in art.

Idiom

nude contract Law = bare contract.

Etymology

L nudus

THESAURUS

nude

art object, au naturel, bald, bare, bare-ass, bareness, birthday suit, blank, brainchild, bric-a-brac, classic, composition, creation, decollete, design, dishabille, ecdysiast, garmentless, grotesque, gymnosophical, gymnosophist, gymnosophy, in, in native buff, in puris naturalibus, in the altogether, in the buff, in the raw, kitsch, master, masterpiece, masterwork, mobile, mother-naked, museum piece, naked, nakedness, naturism, naturist, naturistic, not a stitch, nudism, nudist, nudity, old master, pasticcio, pastiche, peeled, piece, piece of virtu, raw, stabile, stark, stark-naked, state of nature, statue, still life, stripped, stripper, stripteaser, study, the altogether, the nude, the raw, toplessness, unadorned, unadulterated, unarrayed, unattired, unclad, unclothed, uncomplicated, uncovered, undecked, undecorated, undraped, undressed, unembellished, unfurbished, ungarnished, unornamented, unrobed, unsophisticated, untrimmed, unvarnished, virtu, with nothing on, without a stitch, work, work of art

ROGET THESAURUS

nude

Divestment

N divestment, taking off, nudity, bareness, undress, dishabille, the altogether, nudation, denudation, decortication, depilation, excoriation, desquamation, molting, exfoliation, trichosis, divested, bare, naked, nude, undressed, undraped, denuded, exposed, in dishabille, bald, threadbare, ragged, callow, roofless, in a state of nature, in nature's garb, in the buff, in native buff, in birthday suit, in puris naturalibus, with nothing on, stark naked, stark raving naked, bald as a coot, bare as the back of one's hand, out at elbows, barefoot, bareback, barebacked, leafless, napless, hairless.