Meanings
comparative frillier · superlative frilliest
- Having frills; frilled.
The one she showed me has this frilly white skirt with blue bows on it.
2012 November 6, Nora Roberts, The Perfect Hope, Penguin, →ISBN, page 832 more examples
In scented, frilly boutiques that she seemed to find by instinct, they exchanged her battered wardrobe for fur capes and Anna Karenina riding boots that slithered on the frosty cobble, and Pym's dismal school habit for a leather jacket and trousers without buttons for his braces.
1986, John le Carré, A Perfect SpyMs. Grant was dressed up as Little Bo Peep and had on a huge, frilly skirt that was held out with a hoop at the bottom.
2006 March 7, Christian Burch, The Manny Files, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 140 - Over-elaborate or showy in character or appearance.
Synonyms & antonyms
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Chinese Mandarin 有褶边的
- 有褶边的having frills
Finnish röyhelöinen
- röyhelöinenhaving frills
French crêpé, frisé
- crêpéhaving frills
- friséhaving frills
German gerüscht
- gerüschthaving frills
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with frilly
Cite this entry
frilly. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/frilly
“frilly.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/frilly. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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