birthday suit

noun

Definition of birthday suitnext
as in nudity
the state of having no clothes on one's body with all of the resort guests in their birthday suits, socioeconomic differences became invisible and irrelevant

Synonyms & Similar Words

Relevance

Example Sentences

Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to show current usage. Read More Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
Recent Examples of birthday suit And then a couple more lounging in their birthday suits. — Assistant Editor, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2026 Or even do gardening in your birthday suit? — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 26 Feb. 2026 Jenner is no stranger to baring it all in the name of fashion, from freeing the nipple on the runway in a naked dress to ringing in her 30th birthday in nothing but her birthday suit during a tropical getaway. — Lara Walsh, InStyle, 26 Jan. 2026 When things are about to get hot and heavy, Nielsen’s Drebin pulls tears off his suit to reveal…his birthday suit. — Barry Levitt, Time, 1 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for birthday suit
Recent Examples of Synonyms for birthday suit
  1. nudity
  2. nude
Noun
  • But much like the way studios and directors of the 1960s and ’70s embraced the once-taboo profanity and nudity, this year AI has found a new wave of advocates eager to go public.
    — Corbin Bolies, Variety, 13 Oct. 2026
  • But that brief flash of cartoon baby nudity continues to bother prudes, decades after the book’s first run.
    — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 5 Oct. 2026
Definition of nudity
Noun
  • Over the weekend, the group dropped a couple more clips that show one of the main characters, Lucia, nude.
    — Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 12 Oct. 2026
  • In 2013, Kardashian’s then-husband Kanye West gifted her a Hermès Birkin bag for Christmas that featured an impressionist painting of nudes by artist George Condo.
    — Erin Wisti, Footwear News, 11 Oct. 2026
Definition of nude

Browse Nearby Words

birth
birthday suit
birthday suits
See all Nearby Words

Cite this Entry

“Birthday suit.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/birthday%20suit. Accessed 20 Oct. 2026.

Copy Citation
Love words? Need even more definitions?

Subscribe to America's largest dictionary and get thousands more definitions and advanced search—ad free!

Last Updated: - Updated example sentences

More from Merriam-Webster

Word of the Day

Listen to the pronunciation of compunction

See Definitions and Examples »

Popular in Grammar & Usage

See More

Merriam-Webster’s Great Big List of Words You Love to Hate

'Can' vs. 'May'

'Affect' vs. 'Effect'

More Commonly Mispronounced Words

Is it 'nerve-racking' or 'nerve-wracking'?
See More

Popular in Wordplay

See More

The Longest Long Words List

9 Words That Sound Like Insults But Aren't

Did 'orange' the fruit or the color come first?

Even More Bird Names that Sound Like Insults (and Sometimes Are)

12 Lovely and Unusual Words for the Natural World
See More

Popular

See More

Merriam-Webster’s Great Big List of Words You Love to Hate

The Longest Long Words List

9 Words That Sound Like Insults But Aren't
See More

Games & Quizzes

See All
Play Quordle: Guess all four words in a limited number of tries. Each of your guesses must be a real 5-letter word.
Quordle Can you solve 4 words at once?
Play Blossom: Solve today's spelling word game by finding as many words as you can using just 7 letters. Longer words score more points.
Blossom Pick the best words!
Play Missing Letter: a crossword with a twist. Each of the 25 puzzle words start with a different letter of the alphabet. Which letter is missing?
The Missing Letter A daily crossword with a twist
artwork of illustrated limes with the text limes and smile with an arrow connecting the two words
Quiz: Spot the Anagram! Scramble these words to find new words with the e...
See All