dressed

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/ˈdɹɛst/

adj 4

Collocations

ADJ.

all, beautiful, beautiful, black, loud, pink, smartest, stuffed

She was dressed in a beautiful black dress for the wedding.

VERB + DRESSED

arrived, come, doing, get, go, got, nurse, scrubbed

I got dressed quickly this morning because I was running late for work.

DRESSED + NOUN

man

The dressed man in the dark suit walked confidently into the boardroom.

PREP.

down, in, out, up

She dressed up in her best outfit for the wedding ceremony.

ADV.

beautifully, beautifully, neatly, then

She was beautifully dressed for the wedding in a long blue gown.

Definitions

adj

Having been subjected to a preparatory process or treatment; treated, prepared.

Prepared for eating, especially by the addition of specific condiments or dressing.

Wearing clothes; attired (now often with qualifying word).

Wearing a dress.

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.

hatted gentlemen and their long-dressed ladies rode on two-horse wagons

Thesaurus

Synonyms

adjective — dressed or clothed especially in fine attire

appareled
attired
garbed
garmented
habilimented
robed

adjective — (of lumber or stone) to trim and smooth

polished

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

dressed to the nines

Very fancily or formally dressed; wearing very showy or splendid clothing.

He arrived at the gala, dressed to the nines in his top hat and tails.

all dressed up and nowhere to go

Elaborately attired or otherwise fully prepared for an anticipated situation or activity which, nevertheless, fails to occur.

Listen to my tale of woe, It's terribly sad but true. All dressed up, no place to go, Each evening I'm awfully blue.

dressed to kill

Dressed in a very fashionable style.

She's a scented magazine/Looking sharp and living clean/Living well and dressed to kill/But she looks like hell to me

Example Bank

Wiktionary

hatted gentlemen and their long-dressed ladies rode on two-horse wagons

Wiktionary

She had offered him a lift home from the county ball, a night for long-dressed ladies and uniforms.

Wiktionary

The nurse is dressed in white.

Tatoeba · #20970

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

Tatoeba · #23729

Please get dressed.

Tatoeba · #28138

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