dressed up

Speech parts

1. dressed up - Adjective

2. dressed up - Verb

3. dressed up - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

dressed in fancy or formal clothing

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Alternative names

dressed-up

Synonyms

chichi spruce dandy decorated dressed fancy clothed dressed to kill habilimented taffety dressed to the nines dolled up spiffed up spruced up togged up
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Antonyms

naked stripped nude peeled ragged tattered
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Examples

A driver dressed up a fake skeleton and placed it in his passenger seat in a bid to get away with using a high occupancy vehicle lane. Source: Internet

Adults get all dressed up and go to costume parties, often not quite knowing who is beneath a mask. Source: Internet

A former red-top journalist (who famously dressed up as a chicken to stalk David Cameron during an election campaign on behalf of the Labour-supporting Daily Mirror), his big break into political media relations came when he landed a job with Vote Leave. Source: Internet

A Chinese American girl dressed up as a “Southern belle” for an annual Christmas play at the Catholic Chinese Center poses, circa 1945. Source: Internet

Andrade and Flair have been engaged since January, and this isn't the first time the two have dressed up as DC characters -- last year they were a different type of toxic duo: Harley Quinn and the Joker. Source: Internet

Already we’ve had jokes about executives all dressed up for formal online meetings, suited but not booted, with all sorts of business going on below the deskline, so to speak, whether someone is in their track pants, pyjamas, briefs or whatever. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

dressed to nines dressed to the nines dressed to the teeth dressed up fit to kill dressed up like a Christmas tree dressed up like a dog's dinner