nude
Wearing no clothing
Nude means naked—without clothing.
In art, a nude is a depiction of an unclothed human figure: She posed for a nude, classical nudes in oil.
The word carries associations of artistic or aesthetic nudity rather than mere nakedness.
Nude also describes colors matching skin tone: nude lipstick, nude heels.
In the nude means unclothed: He was caught in the nude.
Lacking any garments
- nakedWearing no garments
- strippedHad coverings removed
- exposedOut in open
- uncoveredMade visible or known
undressed · disrobed · au naturel · birthday suit · stark · in the buff · starkers · unadorned
Representation or paradigm
- figureOutline or numeral
- poseDeliberate bodily arrangement
- sketchHasty informal drawing
- canvasHeavy woven cloth
sculpture · life drawing · portrait · anatomy · gallery · exhibition · classical · renaissance
Out in open
- unprotectedWithout safeguard or shield
- defenselessWithout means to resist
- intimateClosely personal or private
- revealingMaking known what's hidden
raw · unguarded · open · sensitive · emotional · laid bare · baring · transparency
unclothed
Lacking any garments
uncovered · undressed · disrobed · au naturel · birthday suit · stark · in the buff · starkers · unadorned · plain
model
Representation or paradigm
canvas · sculpture · life drawing · portrait · anatomy · gallery · exhibition · classical · renaissance · realism
exposed
Out in open
- unprotectedWithout safeguard or shield
- defenselessWithout means to resist
- intimateClosely personal or private
revealing · raw · unguarded · open · sensitive · emotional · laid bare · baring · transparency · authenticity
beige
Pale sandy brown
cream · tan · khaki · almond · fawn · caramel · peach · blush · buff · ochre
- picturespicture, photograph, photo, image, pic
- artworksoil painting, watercolor, portrait, drawing, sketch
- beauty termsmatte, dewy, hydrating, moisturizing, smoothing
- dressed statesdressed, undressed, clothed, unclothed, naked
- art termspainting, sculpture, drawing, portrait, landscape
- Figure Paintingfigure study, figure drawing, human form, portrait, portraiture
nudeadorned
Made ornamental
decorated · ornamented · embellished · ornate · bejeweled
- in the nudeWearing no clothes
- nude sceneFootage featuring undressed actors
- the nudeState of undress
- nude beachShoreline permitting undress
- brief nudityShort unclothed moment
- full frontal nudityUnobstructed view of unclothed body