evening dress

Questions about evening dress

What is another word for evening dress?

It depends which evening dress you mean. In the sense “attire to wear on formal occasions in the evening”, the synonyms are formalwear, eveningwear, evening clothes. Across all 1 sense there are 3 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 evening dress?

WordNet records no antonym for evening dress. 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 evening dress 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 evening dress

• Full entry for evening dressAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for evening dressWhether 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.