undress

1. 1.

   partial or complete nakedness

   “a state of undress”

   Broadernakedness

Other forms of undress

plural

undresses·

past tense

undressed·

present participle

undressing·

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 undress

What does undress mean?

undress means "get undressed". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in undress?

undress has 2 syllables: un-dress. The stress falls on "dress". In IPA it is /ənˈdɹɛs/.

What is another word for undress?

Close synonyms include discase, uncase, unclothe, strip, strip down. 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 undress?

The recorded antonyms are dress.

Is undress a common word?

undress is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for 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 undress?

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