attire

1. 1.

   put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive

   “She never dresses up, even when she goes to the opera”

   “The young girls were all fancied up for the party”

   Synonymsoverdressdress upfig outfig updeck upgussy upfancy uptrick updeck outtrick outprinkget uprig outtog up

   Broaderdress

   Narrowerpreenpranktart upenrobebedizen

Other forms of attire

plural

attires·

past tense

attired·

present participle

attiring·

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 attire

What does attire mean?

attire means "clothing of a distinctive style or for a particular occasion". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in attire?

attire has 3 syllables, though it cannot be divided in writing — the spelling has fewer vowels than the word has beats. In IPA it is /əˈtaɪɚ/.

What is another word for attire?

Close synonyms include garb, dress, overdress, dress up, fig out. 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 attire a common word?

attire is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with attire?

3 words rhyme with attire. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.