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Michelangelo's David is a well-known statue of a nude male.

A model wearing what was described as a nude bra.

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

nude (comparative nuder, superlative nudest)

  1. (not comparable) 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., comparable) 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 comparable) 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.

without clothing or other covering — see also naked

of color of bare skin

Translations to be checked

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.
  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.

image depicting a human in a state of undress

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

nude

  1. feminine plural of nudo

nūde

  1. vocative masculine singular of nūdus

Alternative scripts

nude

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

Borrowed from English nude. Doublet of nu.

nude (invariable)

  1. nude (color)

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

  1. (Internet slang) nude (photograph of a naked person)
    manda nudes ― send nudes

nude

  1. feminine/neuter plural of nud

Unadapted borrowing from English nude.

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.