dressed to the nines

Questions about dressed to the nines

What is another word for dressed to the nines?

It depends which dressed to the nines you mean. In the sense “dressed in fancy or formal clothing”, the synonyms are dressed, dressed-up, dressed to kill, dolled up, spruced up, spiffed up, togged up. Across all 1 sense there are 7 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of dressed to the nines?

WordNet records no antonym for dressed to the nines. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for dressed to the nines come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of dressed to the nines

• Full entry for dressed to the ninesAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for dressed to the ninesWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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