underclothing

Other forms of underclothing

plural

underclothings·

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 underclothing

What does underclothing mean?

underclothing means "undergarment worn next to the skin and under the outer garments".

How many syllables are in underclothing?

underclothing has 4 syllables: un-der-clo-thing. The stress falls on "der".

What is another word for underclothing?

Close synonyms include underwear, underclothes. 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 underclothing a common word?

underclothing 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.