dressed-up

Questions about dressed-up

What does dressed-up mean?

dressed-up means "dressed in fancy or formal clothing".

How many syllables are in dressed-up?

dressed-up has 3 syllables: dres-se-d-up. The stress falls on "dres".

What is another word for dressed-up?

Close synonyms include dressed, dressed to the nines, 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-up a common word?

dressed-up 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.