dress up

Questions about dress up

What does dress up mean?

dress up means "put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for dress up?

Close synonyms include overdress, fig out, fig up, deck up, gussy up. 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.

What is the opposite of dress up?

The recorded antonyms are dress down.

Is dress up a common word?

dress up is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.