au naturel

1. 1.

   completely unclothed

   “bare bodies”

   “naked from the waist up”

   “a nude model”

   Synonymsbarenakednude

   Similarunclothed

Questions about au naturel

What does au naturel mean?

au naturel means "completely unclothed".

What is another word for au naturel?

Close synonyms include bare, naked, nude. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is au naturel a common word?

au naturel is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.