overdress

Other forms of overdress

past tense

overdressed·

present participle

overdressing·

third person

overdresses·

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.

Questions about overdress

What does overdress mean?

overdress means "dress too warmly". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in overdress?

overdress has 3 syllables: o-ver-dress. The stress falls on "o". In IPA it is /ˈoʊvɚˌdɹɛs/.

What is another word for overdress?

Close synonyms include overclothe, dress up, fig out, fig up, deck 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.

What is the opposite of overdress?

The recorded antonyms are underdress, underdress.

Is overdress a common word?

overdress 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.

What rhymes with overdress?

5 words rhyme with overdress. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.