nude

Entered English 1531 as a legal term, meaning "unsupported, not formally attested," from Latin nūdus (“naked, bare”).

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

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 the Washington Blade
   • For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:nude.
3. (law, obsolete) 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

• nudie
• nelfie

• 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:

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

• 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

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 m, f (plural nudes)

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

The word is masculine in Brazil and feminine in Portugal.

• IPA^(key): [ˈnu.de]

nude

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