dressed

A2
US /ˈdɹɛst/
verb adj Freq #1507

Meanings

  1. 1
    verb

    simple past and past participle of dress

    the girls were dressed in green; the shrimp sandwich dressed with lettuce and tomato is their top seller

  2. 2
    adj

    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.

  3. 3
    adj

    dressed or clothed especially in fine attire

  4. 4
    adj

    (of lumber or stone) to trim and smooth

  5. 5
    adj

    treated with medications and protective covering

  6. 6
    adj

    dressed in fancy or formal clothing

  7. 7
    adj

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

  8. 8
    adj

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

Thesaurus

Synonyms
3 adj · dressed or clothed... appareled
4 adj · (of lumber or stone) to... polished
6 adj · dressed in fancy or formal... dolled updressed to killdressed to the ninesdressed-upspiffed upspruced uptogged up
More clothedraimented
Word family
Derived forms all-dressedbrain-dressedevening-dressedfull-dressedhalfdressedhammer-dressedmorning-dressednondressedoverdressedpower-dressedrough-dressedunderdressed

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