dressed-up

Questions about dressed-up

What is another word for dressed-up?

It depends which dressed-up you mean. In the sense “dressed in fancy or formal clothing”, the synonyms are dressed, dressed to the nines, 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-up?

WordNet records no antonym for dressed-up. 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-up 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-up

• Full entry for dressed-upAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for dressed-upWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.