wearing apparel

1. 1.

   clothing in general

   “she was refined in her choice of apparel”

   “he always bought his clothes at the same store”

   “fastidious about his dress”

   Synonymsappareldressclothes

   Broaderclothing

   Narrowerworkwear

   plural

Questions about wearing apparel

What does wearing apparel mean?

wearing apparel means "clothing in general".

What is another word for wearing apparel?

Close synonyms include apparel, dress, clothes. 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 wearing apparel a common word?

wearing apparel 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.