dressed
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Definition
- Adjective:
- Wearing clothes; clothed: Describes a person or thing that has clothes on.
- Prepared for cooking or eating: Describes food, especially meat, poultry, or fish, that has been cleaned, trimmed, and made ready for cooking.
- Finished or treated: Describes a material, like wood or stone, that has been trimmed, smoothed, or otherwise processed to a finished state. It can also describe a wound that has been cleaned and covered with a protective bandage.
Usage
- Use "dressed" to describe someone who is wearing clothes, often implying they are fully and appropriately clothed.
- Use "dressed" to describe food that is ready for the next step in preparation.
- Use "dressed" to describe materials that have been worked on to achieve a smooth, finished surface or condition.
Examples
- Adjective:
- The children were dressed in their school uniforms.
- Is the chicken dressed and ready for the oven?
- The carpenter used dressed timber for the fine furniture.
- The nurse dressed the wound carefully. (Here, 'dressed' is the past tense of the verb 'to dress', meaning to treat and cover a wound.)
Advanced Usage
- "well-dressed" / "elegantly dressed": Wearing stylish, fashionable, or formal clothes.
- He is always very well-dressed for work.
- "fully dressed": Completely clothed.
- She was fully dressed and ready to leave.
- "dressed to kill" (Idiom): Dressed in very stylish or alluring clothes intended to impress or attract attention.
- She arrived at the party dressed to kill.
Variants and Related Words
- Dress (verb): To put clothes on oneself or someone else; to decorate or arrange; to treat a wound.
- Dresser (noun): A person who dresses in a particular way; a piece of furniture with drawers for clothes; a backstage helper for actors.
- Dressing (noun): A sauce for salads; a mixture used to stuff poultry; the act of putting on clothes; material used to cover a wound.
- Undressed (adjective): Not wearing clothes; not treated or prepared (e.g., undressed salad, undressed wound).
Synonyms
- Clothed
- Attired
- Garbed
- Robed
- Prepared (for food)
- Finished (for materials)
Antonyms
- Naked
- Undressed
- Unclothed
Phrasal Verbs / Related Verb Phrases
- Dress up: To wear formal or fancy clothes; to wear a costume.
- We have to dress up for the wedding.
- Dress down: To wear casual clothes.
- On Fridays, the office allows us to dress down.
- Dress for: To wear clothes suitable for a specific occasion or activity.
- You should dress for cold weather.
Related Idioms
- Dressed to the nines: Dressed very elegantly or smartly.
- They were dressed to the nines for the gala.
- Dress rehearsal: A full rehearsal of a play or other performance in costume.
- The dress rehearsal went perfectly.
Adjective
- dressed in fancy or formal clothing
- (of lumber or stone) to trim and smooth
- treated with medications and protective covering
- dressed or clothed especially in fine attire; often used in combination
- the elegantly attired gentleman
- neatly dressed workers
- monks garbed in hooded robes
- went about oddly garmented
- professors robed in crimson
- tuxedo-attired gentlemen
- crimson-robed Harvard professors