attire

Speech parts

1. attire - Noun

2. attire - Verb

Meaning

To dress; to array; to adorn; esp., to clothe with elegant or splendid garments.

Dress; clothes; headdress; anything which dresses or adorns; esp., ornamental clothing.

The antlers, or antlers and scalp, of a stag or buck.

The internal parts of a flower, included within the calyx and the corolla.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

dress garb clothing wear costume outfit apparel raiment wardrobe dress up overdress prink deck out gussy up trick out
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Antonyms

peel leach strip discover rifle rid
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Hypernyms

clothing dress wear wearable vesture get dressed

Hyponyms

suit uniform coat dress shirt costume

Phrases with the word

formal attire casual attire everyday attire business attire black-tie attire hooded attire

Derivatives

attired attiring

Anagrams

ratite rattie Tiaret Tertia

Examples

People used to wear ordinary clothes weekdays, and formal attire on Sunday. Today it is the exact reverse. Nassim Nicholas Taleb

We want to create a society in which our workers and farmers can afford to appear in handsome attire and enjoy a good life and health; we want this kind of society. Nur Muhammad Taraki

It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies, could they be made to understand how little the heart of a man is affected by what is costly or new in their attire. Jane Austen

Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire. Charles Dickens

Unclasps her warmed jewels one by one; Loosens her fragrant bodice; by degrees Her rich attire creeps rustling to her knees. John Keats

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire. William Penn

Close letter words and terms

attingence attingency attingent attired attired like a christmas tree attired like a xmas tree