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dressed en · ADJ

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Having been subjected to a preparatory process or treatment; treated, prepared.
  2. (not-comparable) Prepared for eating, especially by the addition of specific condiments or dressing.
  3. (not-comparable) Wearing clothes; attired (now often with qualifying word).
  4. (in-compounds, not-comparable) Wearing a dress.
    • hatted gentlemen and their long-dressed ladies rode on two-horse wagons 1980, Calamus, page 8:
    • 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 26:
    • She 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:

Deriveds

power-dressed · mutton dressed up as lamb · brain-dressed · nondressed · full-dressed · overdressed · dressed up · morning-dressed · hammer-dressed · well-dressed · mutton dressed as lamb · evening-dressed · underdressed · dressed to kill · rough-dressed · dressed herring · all dressed · get dressed · dressed to the nines · all-dressed · cladly dressed · halfdressed

Synonyms

clothed (wearing clothes) · raimented

Translations (10)

de bekleidet\ (having clothes on) · ru оде́тый (having clothes on) · nl aangekleed (having clothes on) · fi pukeutunut (having clothes on) · fr vêtu (having clothes on) · de gekleidet (having clothes on) · fr habillé (having clothes on) · pl ubrany (having clothes on) · mi mau kākahu (having clothes on) · la amictus (having clothes on)

dressed en · VERB

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (form-of, participle, past) simple past and past participle of dress
    form of dress
    • 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:
    • The girls were dressed in green.