Adjacent Words

Exposed definitions

	Tweet

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

EXPO'SED, pp. Laid open; laid bare;uncovered; unprotected; made liable to attack; offered for sale; disclosed; made public; offered to view.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: with no protection or shield; "the exposed northeast frontier"; "open to the weather"; "an open wound" [syn: exposed, open]
2: not covered with clothing; "her exposed breast" [syn: exposed, uncovered]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: circa 1623 1. open to view 2. not shielded or protected; also not insulated <an exposed electric wire> Synonyms: see liable

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Expose Ex*pose", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Exposed; p. pr. & vb. n. Exposing.] [F. exposer; pref. ex- (L. ex out)+poser to place. See Pose, v. t.] 1. To set forth; to set out to public view; to exhibit; to show; to display; as, to expose goods for sale; to expose pictures to public inspection. Those who seek truth only, freely expose their principles to the test, and are pleased to have them examined. --Locke. 2. To lay bare; to lay open to attack, danger, or anything objectionable; to render accessible to anything which may affect, especially detrimentally; to make liable; as, to expose one's self to the heat of the sun, or to cold, insult, danger, or ridicule; to expose an army to destruction or defeat. Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel. --Shak. 3. To deprive of concealment; to discover; to lay open to public inspection, or bring to public notice, as a thing that shuns publicity, something criminal, shameful, or the like; as, to expose the faults of a neighbor. You only expose the follies of men, without arraigning their vices. --Dryden. 4. To disclose the faults or reprehensible practices of; to lay open to general condemnation or contempt by making public the character or arts of; as, to expose a cheat, liar, or hypocrite.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If a place is exposed, it has no natural protection against bad weather or enemies, for example because it has no trees or is on very high ground. ...an exposed hillside in Connecticut... ADJ

Moby Thesaurus

aerial, aeriform, aery, airish, airlike, airy, alfresco, answerable for, apparent, apt to, atmospheric, bald, bare, bared, beholdable, belied, bleak, blown, breezy, capable of, clear, cleared, confounded, confuted, deflated, denied, denudated, denuded, dependent on, detectable, discarded, discernible, disclosed, discredited, dismissed, disproved, disputed, divested, ethereal, evident, exploded, exposed to, exposed to view, free, hanging out, impugned, in danger of, in evidence, in full view, in plain sight, in view, incident to, insight, invalidated, laid bare, liable, liable to, light, likely, likely to, manifest, naked, naked to, negated, negatived, nonimmune, noticeable, obliged to, obnoxious, observable, open, open as day, open to, open to all, open to view, open-air, outcropping, overt, overthrown, overturned, peeled, perceivable, perceptible, pneumatic, prone, prone to, punctured, raw, ready for, recognizable, refuted, rejected, responsible for, revealed, roomy, seeable, sensitive, showing, shown up, standing to, stripped, subject, subject to, susceptible, susceptive to, threatened, to be seen, tropospheric, unclassified, unclogged, unclosed, unclouded, unconcealed, uncovered, undisguised, unhidden, unobstructed, unrestricted, unstopped, unveiled, upset, viewable, visible, visual, wide-open, windblown, windswept, within range of, witnessable