try on

1. 1.

   put on a garment in order to see whether it fits and looks nice

   “Try on this sweater to see how it looks”

   Synonymstry

   Broaderwear

Questions about try on

What does try on mean?

try on means "put on a garment in order to see whether it fits and looks nice".

What is another word for try on?

Close synonyms include try. 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 try on a common word?

try on is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.