dressed

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dressed

  • /ˈdɹɛst/

Rhymes with -ɛst

verb

  1. participle, past simple past and past participle of dress The girls were dressed in green.

adjective

  1. not comparable Having been subjected to a preparatory process or treatment; treated, prepared.
  2. not comparable Prepared for eating, especially by the addition of specific condiments or dressing.
  3. not comparable Wearing clothes; attired (now often with qualifying word).

    Similar: clothed

  4. in compounds, not comparable 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.

Similar: raimented

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: garmented, clad, habilimented, clothed, robed, polished, attired, treated, finished, appareled, dolled up, dressed-up, garbed, spiffed up, spruced up, costumed

adjective

Similar: raimented

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adj having clothes on

Françaishabillé, vêtu
Deutschgekleidet, bekleidet\
Русскийоде́тый odétyj

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@misc{dressed_2026,
  title = {dressed},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/dressed},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}