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half-naked

half-naked adverb: with very few clothes on; revealing lots of one's body.

Adverb

half-naked (not comparable)

  1. (idiomatic) With very few clothes on; revealing lots of one's body.

Adjective

half-naked (not comparable)

  1. With very few clothes on.
    • Tim dressed himself in rags yesterday, and went out disguised as a beggar half-naked and without shoes or stockings. He robbed a gentleman and a lady of a watch and a purse.1847, George W[illiam] M[acArthur] Reynolds, “Old Death”, in The Mysteries of London, volume III (volume I, Second Series), London: G. Vickers, […], →OCLC, page 66, column 1
    • […] going about the county half-naked, but having good clothes, perhaps sent forward to the lodging-house by his jomer (girl); this is very often a profitable trade; the shallow-cove of course selling all the clothes he does not need himself.1859, Snowden's Magistrates Assistant, page 87

half-naked meaning in Gujarati

half-naked in Gujarati

half-naked
અર્ધનગ્ન ardhanagna

Synonyms of half-naked

Forms of half-naked

alternative formhalf naked

Origin of half-naked

From Middle English half naked, from Old English healfnacod, from Proto-Germanic *halbanakwadaz; equivalent to half- + naked.

Words formed from half-naked

  • half-nakedly
  • half-nakedness

Questions about half-naked

What does half-naked mean?
Half-naked means with very few clothes on; revealing lots of one's body.
What is half-naked in Gujarati?
Half-naked in Gujarati is અર્ધનગ્ન (ardhanagna). See Half-naked meaning in Gujarati.
What part of speech is half-naked?
Half-naked can be an adverb or an adjective.

Words near half-naked in the dictionary

  1. half-monthly
  2. half-moon
  3. half-mooned
  4. half-moons
  5. half-mourning
  6. half-naked
  7. half-natural
  8. half-naturals
  9. half-nephew
  10. half-nephews
  11. half-niece

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Adapted from Wiktionary: half-naked (page history and authors); અર્ધનગ્ન (Gujarati) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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