Definition

1. 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

1. dressed in fancy or formal clothing
2. (of lumber or stone) to trim and smooth
3. treated with medications and protective covering
4. 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