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Indecent vs Naked - What's the difference?

indecent | naked |

As adjectives the difference between indecent and naked

is that indecent is offensive to good taste while naked is not wearing any clothes; without clothing on the genitals or female nipples.

As a verb naked is

past tense of nake.

indecent

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • offensive to good taste
  • not in keeping with conventional moral values; improper, immodest or unseemly

    • Synonyms

    * (offensive to good taste ): distasteful, in bad taste, in poor taste, offensive * (not in keeping with conventional moral values ): immodest, immoral, improper, unseemly

    Anagrams

    *

    naked

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) . More at (m).

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Not wearing any clothes; without clothing on the genitals or female nipples.
    • She was as naked as the day she was born.
  • Glib, without decoration, put bluntly.
    • This is the naked truth.
    The naked facts lay there on the table, enclosed within the files.
  • Unprotected; (by extension) without a condom.
    • The tendrils of the naked flame stretched into the skies.
    I entered her naked and came in her too.
  • Uncomfortable; as if missing something important.
    • I feel naked without my mobile phone.
    Synonyms
    * bare, nude, starkers, unclad, unclothed, butt-naked, bareassed, birthday suit, showing skin, barefoot * See also * (without a condom)
    Derived terms
    * naked ape * naked eye * naked flame * naked truth * half-naked, half naked * semi-naked

    Etymology 2

    See (nake) (verb)

    Verb

    (head)
  • (nake)

    • Anagrams

    * (l), (l)