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 and divides as ill--dressed under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

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.