apparel

1. 1.

   clothing in general

   “she was refined in her choice of apparel”

   “he always bought his clothes at the same store”

   “fastidious about his dress”

   Synonymswearing appareldressclothes

   Broaderclothing

   Narrowerworkwear

   plural

1. 1.

   provide with clothes or put clothes on

   “Parents must feed and dress their child”

   Synonymsdressclotheenclothegarbraimenttoggarmenthabilitatefit out

   Broaderchange state

   Narrowerprimcoverjacketfrockshirthabitvestureoverdressunderdresscorset

Other forms of apparel

plural

apparels·

past tense

apparelled·

present participle

apparelling·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about apparel

What does apparel mean?

apparel means "clothing in general". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in apparel?

apparel has 3 syllables: ap-par-el. The stress falls on "par". In IPA it is /əˈpæɹəl/.

What is another word for apparel?

Close synonyms include wearing apparel, dress, clothes, dress, clothe. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is apparel a common word?

apparel is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.