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say it: drest
dressed is an adjective meaning "dressed or clothed especially in fine attire; often used in combination". It carries 4 recorded senses.
dressed or clothed especially in fine attire; often used in combination
“the elegantly attired gentleman”
“neatly dressed workers”
“monks garbed in hooded robes”
“went about oddly garmented”
“professors robed in crimson”
“tuxedo-attired gentlemen”
“crimson-robed Harvard professors”
treated with medications and protective covering
dressed in fancy or formal clothing
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for dressed come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.