UNDRESSED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does undressed mean? 

• UNDRESSED (adjective)
  The adjective UNDRESSED has 2 senses:

1. of lumber or stone or hides; not finished or dressed

2. having removed clothing

  Familiarity information: UNDRESSED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNDRESSED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of lumber or stone or hides; not finished or dressed

Context example:

undressed hides

Similar:

unfinished (not brought to the desired final state)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Having removed clothing

Synonyms:

unappareled; unattired; unclad; undressed; ungarbed; ungarmented

Similar:

unclothed (not wearing clothing)

 Context examples 

Besides, she added, a message might possibly come from Mr. Rochester when she was undressed; "et alors quel dommage!"

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

To get rid of her, I undressed quickly, extinguished my light, and went to bed.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Of one thing I am glad: if it was that the Count carried me here and undressed me, he must have been hurried in his task, for my pockets are intact.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Two things I had acquired by my accident: an injured knee-cap that went undressed and from which I suffered for weary months, and the name of “Hump,” which Wolf Larsen had called me from the poop.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

When they came to the stairs, the soldier ran on before the princesses, and laid himself down; and as the twelve sisters slowly came up very much tired, they heard him snoring in his bed; so they said, Now all is quite safe; then they undressed themselves, put away their fine clothes, pulled off their shoes, and went to bed.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

She was soon undressed and in bed, and as she seemed desirous of being alone, her sister then left her, and while she waited the return of Mrs. Jennings, had leisure enough for thinking over the past.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

He was nowhere to be met with; every search for him was equally unsuccessful, in morning lounges or evening assemblies; neither at the Upper nor Lower Rooms, at dressed or undressed balls, was he perceivable; nor among the walkers, the horsemen, or the curricle-drivers of the morning.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

When this appeared improbable for that night, I undressed, and went to bed; and, there, I began to wonder fearfully what would be done to me.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I then sat with my doll on my knee till the fire got low, glancing round occasionally to make sure that nothing worse than myself haunted the shadowy room; and when the embers sank to a dull red, I undressed hastily, tugging at knots and strings as I best might, and sought shelter from cold and darkness in my crib.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

In revolving these matters, while she undressed, it suddenly struck her as not unlikely that she might that morning have passed near the very spot of this unfortunate woman's confinement—might have been within a few paces of the cell in which she languished out her days; for what part of the abbey could be more fitted for the purpose than that which yet bore the traces of monastic division?

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)