UNCLOTHED Synonyms: 65 Similar and Opposite Words

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adjective

ˌən-ˈklōt͟hd

Definition of unclothed

as in naked

lacking or shed of clothing an artist's drawings of clothed and unclothed figures

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verb

past tense of unclothe

as in undressed

to remove clothing from partially unclothed the patient for treatment

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Jurors heard new details about how investigators found Athena Strand, including testimony that she was found unclothed and that items of her clothing were later recovered. — Lauren Crawford, CBS News, 9 Apr. 2026 Several South Shore residents reported witnessing federal immigration agents forcibly removing unclothed children from apartments during the pre-dawn raid in Chicago. — Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025 The man stands just beyond a vivid swirl of similarly unclothed American Indians with discolored bodies, a jarring imagining of the senseless violence and disease that ravaged the Ohlone people, who first settled in the coastal Northern California land that now comprises much of the Bay Area. — Shomik Mukherjee, Mercury News, 6 Sep. 2025 Woolf's remains were found unclothed and partially decomposed near the San Joaquin trailhead in Tucson in December 2024. — Wren Smetana, AZCentral.com, 26 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for unclothed

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And why is Owen Wilson grinning like an awkward schoolboy at Zeus’s naked daughters?

— Andrea Sachs, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2026
Interior designer Geoffrey Bradfield raised eyebrows at his 80th birthday party at the Lowell Hotel with a group of nearly naked male models body-painted in safari garb.

— Richard Johnson, New York Daily News, 18 Oct. 2026

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Jordende Pierre, 29, was arrested Thursday in Malden, Massachusetts, after the woman was found earlier this month in the attic of an apartment building, undressed on a mat and lying near a bucket of urine, according to CNN affiliates WCVB and WFXT.

— Alex Stambaugh, CNN Money, 29 Sep. 2026
Dever said the women did not believe their coach’s intent was to record them getting undressed, but rather to spy on their discussion.

— Edward Lee, Baltimore Sun, 16 June 2026

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Despite Ukraine's pause, officials in Kyiv said the country has been stripped of advance warnings of incoming ballistic missiles, as Starlink connectivity services had been restricted across the country, disrupting military operations.

— Elsa Ohlen, CNBC, 15 Oct. 2026
Many of those stripped from the electoral rolls are appealing their removal—an often laborious process—but the possibility of mass disenfranchisement is real.

— Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2026

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