clothed
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Definition
- Adjective:
- Wearing garments; dressed: Describes a person or entity that is wearing clothes or has garments covering the body.
- Covered with or as if with a layer of something: Describes something that is enveloped or concealed by a material or substance, resembling clothing.
Examples of Usage
- Adjective:
- The children were fully clothed for the cold weather.
- The mountains were clothed in a thick blanket of snow.
- He felt more confident when he was properly clothed.
Advanced Usage
"clothed in": Used to specify the material, color, or type of covering.
- The actors were clothed in authentic medieval costumes.
- The fields were clothed in golden sunlight.
"clothed with": Often used in more formal or literary contexts to describe being covered with something abstract, like authority or dignity.
- The office is clothed with great responsibility. (Note: This is a figurative, advanced usage.)
Variants and Related Words
Clothe (verb): To provide or put clothes on someone or something.
- It is a parent's duty to feed and clothe their children.
Clothing (noun): Garments collectively; clothes.
- She donated bags of warm clothing to the shelter.
Well-clothed (compound adjective): Dressed in good or sufficient clothing.
- The well-clothed gentleman stood out in the crowd.
White-clad (compound adjective): Dressed in white clothing.
- The white-clad nurses moved quietly through the ward.
Synonyms
- Dressed: Wearing clothes.
- Attired: Dressed, especially in a specified manner (often more formal).
- Clad: Covered; dressed (can be used for both people and things).
Antonyms
- Naked: Without any clothes on.
- Unclothed: Not wearing clothes; naked.
- Bare: Uncovered; exposed.
Adjective
- covered with or as if with clothes or a wrap or cloak
- leaf-clothed trees
- fog-cloaked meadows
- a beam draped with cobwebs
- cloud-wrapped peaks
- wearing or provided with clothing; sometimes used in combination
- clothed and in his right mind- Bible
- proud of her well-clothed family
- nurses clad in white
- white-clad nurses