window-dress

1. 1.

   make something appear superficially attractive

   “The researcher tried to dress up the uninteresting data”

   “Don't try to dress up the unpleasant truth”

   Synonymsdress up

   Broaderfancify

Questions about window-dress

What does window-dress mean?

window-dress means "make something appear superficially attractive".

How many syllables are in window-dress?

window-dress has 3 syllables: win-dow--dress. The stress falls on "win".

What is another word for window-dress?

Close synonyms include dress 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.

Is window-dress a common word?

window-dress 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.