Dressed

//ˈdɹɛst// adj, verb

adj, verb ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Verb

1
simple past and past participle of dress form-of, participle, past
"the girls were dressed in green; the shrimp sandwich dressed with lettuce and tomato is their top seller"

Adjective

1
Having been subjected to a preparatory process or treatment; treated, prepared. not-comparable
2
Prepared for eating, especially by the addition of specific condiments or dressing. not-comparable
3
Wearing clothes; attired (now often with qualifying word). not-comparable
4
Wearing a dress. in-compounds, not-comparable
"No longer would our profession’s stoical symbol of equality be the blindfolded, long-dressed lady holding scales. She would be replaced by a mini-skirted beautiful chick whose blindfold has been pushed up to be used as a head band."

Adjective

1
dressed or clothed especially in fine attire; often used in combination wordnet
2
dressed in fancy or formal clothing wordnet
3
(of lumber or stone) to trim and smooth wordnet
4
treated with medications and protective covering wordnet

Synonyms

clothed appareled arrayed attired beclad bedecked

Antonyms

bare naked starkers

Example

"She was all the more beautiful dressed in her wedding costume."

Related phrases

all dressed all-dressed brain-dressed cladly dressed dressed to kill dressed to the nines dressed up evening-dressed full-dressed get dressed hammer-dressed morning-dressed

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