undressed
/ʌnˈdrɛst
/adjective
1Wearing no clothes; naked: he was undressed and ready for bed...
- You should also know that I'm not really naked, though I may be partially undressed.
- The two men, she said seemed to be partially undressed while the woman appeared to be naked.
- He lay me on the bed, undressed, as he removed his own clothes.
Synonyms
naked, nude, stark naked, bare, unclothed, unclad, stripped, denuded, disrobed, undraped, with nothing on, exposed;
French au naturel
informal in one's birthday suit, without a stitch on, in the raw, in the altogether, in the buff, in the nuddy, mother naked
British informal starkers
North American informal bare-assed, buck naked
British vulgar slang bollock-naked
2Not treated, processed, or prepared for use: undressed deerskin a rough, undressed stone slab...
- Use traditional lime mortars rather than leaving external stone undressed.
- It is made of roughly coursed undressed rectangular stone facings with a rubble core.
- Some are distinctly organic, the bark still on the sinuous floor joist, a chimneystack of undressed stone.
Synonyms
untreated, unprocessed, unprepared, unfinished, raw, rough, natural
3(Of food) not having a dressing: an undressed salad...
- This the time of year to eat healthily, but I'm not suggesting for one minute that this means eating undressed salads!
- For Rory Bremner, the greatest impersonator of the age, about the only thing he finds tasteless is an undressed salad.
- He observes, rightly, that the Calabrian peasant who has toiled for long hours in the field does not want to come home to a grilled sardine and an undressed green salad.