Meanings
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of dress
The girls were dressed in green.
2 more examples
The shrimp sandwich dressed with lettuce and tomato is their top seller.
...he was deadly pale, and the blood-stained bandage round his head told that he had recently been wounded, and still more recently dressed.
1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC
- in compoundsnot comparableWearing a dress.
hatted gentlemen and their long-dressed ladies rode on two-horse wagons
1980, Calamus, page 82 more examples
No longer would our profession’s stoical symbol of equality be the blindfolded, long-dressed lady holding scales. She would be replaced by a mini-skirted beautiful chick whose blindfold has been pushed up to be used as a head band.
1972, The Colorado Lawyer, page 26She had offered him a lift home from the county ball, a night for long-dressed ladies and uniforms.
1999, Leslie Thomas, Other Times, →ISBN, page 3
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveWearing clothes; attired (now often with qualifying word).
More synonyms by meaning
adjectivedressed or clothed especially in fine attire; often used in combination
adjectivetreated with medications and protective covering
adjectivedressed in fancy or formal clothing
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Dutch aangekleed
- aangekleedhaving clothes on
Finnish pukeutunut
- pukeutunuthaving clothes on
French habillé, vêtu
- habilléhaving clothes on
- vêtuhaving clothes on
German gekleidet, bekleidet\
- gekleidethaving clothes on
- bekleidet\having clothes on
Latin amictus
- amictushaving clothes on
Māori mau kākahu
- mau kākahuhaving clothes on
Polish ubrany
- ubranyhaving clothes on
Russian оде́тый
- оде́тый (odétyj)having clothes on
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with dressed
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Cite this entry
dressed. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dressed
“dressed.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dressed. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “dressed,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dressed.
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