dressedadjective [ after verb ]
uk/drest/us/drest/A2 wearing clothes and not naked:
I usually get dressed before I eat breakfast.
He was dressed in a dark grey suit.
The party guests came early, and I wasn't fully dressed (= didn't have all my clothes on).
B1 wearing clothing of a particular type:
a well-dressed/casually dressed man
More examples
- The two sisters were always dressed identically.
- The little pageboys were dressed in kilts and the bridesmaids in pink dresses.
- I'm not properly dressed for this sort of weather.
- She was dressed casually in jeans and a sweatshirt.
- We can't go yet - I'm only half dressed.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Wearing clothes
- attire
- be dripping with sth idiom
- caped
- clad
- clothe
- dressed to kill idiom
- dresser
- drip
- grow
- grow into sth
- have (got) sth on
- hoodie
- nine
- stylish
- suit
- tog
- tracksuit
- turban
- turn sb out
- wear
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Idiom(s)
dressed (up) to the nines
dressed to kill