dressed to the nines

1. 1.

   dressed in fancy or formal clothing

   Synonymsdresseddressed-updressed to killdolled upspruced upspiffed uptogged up

   Similarclothed

Questions about dressed to the nines

What does dressed to the nines mean?

dressed to the nines means "dressed in fancy or formal clothing".

What is another word for dressed to the nines?

Close synonyms include dressed, dressed-up, dressed to kill, dolled up, spruced 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.

Is dressed to the nines a common word?

dressed to the nines is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.