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seminude

seminude adjective: scantily dressed; partially naked.

Adjective

seminude (not comparable)

  1. Scantily dressed; partially naked.
    • The folder is full of photographs of nude and seminude women.2019, Maaza Mengiste, The Shadow King, Canongate Books (2020), page 333
  2. (obsolete) Partially exposed.

Noun

seminude (plural seminudes)

  1. An artwork depicting a partially naked person.
    • Hanover's pictures rarely show the sexual act; his nudes and semi-nudes are sensual rather than frankly sexual.1976 February 14, Rose Flower, “Shooting That Same Face For Seven Years”, in Gay Community News, volume 3, number 33, page 15

Forms of seminude

Adjective
alternative formsemi-nude
Noun
pluralseminudes

Origin of seminude

From semi- + nude.

Questions about seminude

What does seminude mean?
Seminude means scantily dressed; partially naked.
What part of speech is seminude?
Seminude can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near seminude in the dictionary

  1. seminormalization
  2. seminormalizations
  3. seminorms
  4. seminose
  5. seminovel
  6. seminude
  7. seminudity
  8. seminule
  9. seminules
  10. seminumerate
  11. seminumerical

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