Antonyms for dress
| Grammar : Noun, verb |
| Spell : dres |
| Phonetic Transcription : drɛs |
Definition of dress
Origin :- early 14c., "make straight; direct, guide, control, prepare for cooking," from Old French dresser, drecier "raise (oneself), address, prepare, lift, raise, hoist, set up, arrange, set (a table), serve (food), straighten, put right, direct," from Vulgar Latin *directiare, from Latin directus "direct, straight" (see direct (v.)).
- Sense of "decorate, adorn" is late 14c., as is that of "put on clothing." Original sense survives in military meaning "align columns of troops." Dress up "attire elaborately" is from 1670s; dressing down "wearing clothes less formal than expected" is from 1960. To dress (someone) down (1769) is ironical. Related: Dressed; dressing.
- noun clothing; woman's garment
- verb put on clothing
- verb physically prepare; groom
- verb cover a wound
- So people say; but he doesn't show it in his dress or way of living.
- Extract from : « Brave and Bold » by Horatio Alger
- From his dress, and the commands he appeared to be issuing, Robert judged that it was the mate.
- Extract from : « Brave and Bold » by Horatio Alger
- Each modification of your dress makes you seem more bewitching than the last.
- Extract from : « Viviette » by William J. Locke
- In this resolution he had begun to dress, but before he had finished had begun to have his doubts.
- Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
- But for her consolation were the matters of food and dress, and of countless junketings.
- Extract from : « Within the Law » by Marvin Dana
- Foot-gear and dress should be as near water-proof as possible upon this occasion.
- Extract from : « The Roof of France » by Matilda Betham-Edwards
- We understand how to discourse upon diseases when we have that dress?
- Extract from : « The Imaginary Invalid » by Molire
- She put on her Shaman's dress and about the middle of the day the Cacique of the Sun sent for them.
- Extract from : « The Trail Book » by Mary Austin
- He was older than I, but he was also fat, and for all his Shaman's dress I was not frightened.
- Extract from : « The Trail Book » by Mary Austin
- If she had dared, she'd have offered to get me a dress herself.
- Extract from : « The Bacillus of Beauty » by Harriet Stark
Synonyms for dress
- accouterment
- adjust
- adorn
- align
- apparel
- arrange
- array
- attend
- attire
- attirement
- bandage
- bedeck
- bind
- bundle up
- cauterize
- change
- civvies
- clad
- cleanse
- clothe
- comb
- costume
- cover
- covering
- deck
- decorate
- dispose
- do up
- don
- drape
- dry goods
- duds
- embellish
- ensemble
- evening clothes
- fit
- fit out
- frock
- furbish
- garb
- gear
- give first aid
- gown
- guise
- habiliment
- habit
- heal
- make ready
- muumuu
- ornament
- outfit
- pinafore
- plaster
- primp
- put on
- raiment
- rig
- robe
- set
- sew up
- shift
- skirt
- slip into
- slip on
- smock
- spruce up
- sterilize
- straighten
- suit
- suit up
- Sunday best
- things
- threads
- tog
- toga
- toggery
- trappings
- treat
- trim
- turn out
- uniform
- vestment
- wardrobe
- wear
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