ill-dressed

1. 1.

   not well dressed

   Similarungroomed

Questions about ill-dressed

What does ill-dressed mean?

ill-dressed means "not well dressed".

How many syllables are in ill-dressed?

ill-dressed has 2 syllables: ill--dressed. The stress falls on "ill-".

Is ill-dressed a common word?

ill-dressed 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.