full dress

Questions about full dress

What is another word for full dress?

It depends which full dress you mean. In the sense “formalwear consisting of full evening dress for men”, the synonyms are dress suit, tailcoat, tail coat, tails, white tie, white tie and tails. Across all 1 sense there are 6 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 full dress?

WordNet records no antonym for full 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 full 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 full dress

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