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dressed up

dressed up adjective: wearing formal (dress) clothes. Also the simple past and past participle of dress up.

dressed up: wearing formal (dress) clothes
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Adjective

dressed up (comparative more dressed up, superlative most dressed up)

  1. Wearing formal (dress) clothes.
    • Everyone was so nicely dressed up for the wedding, I couldn't resist taking a picture.
    Synonyms:
    endimanched
  2. Wearing a costume.

Also used as

dressed up is also the simple past and past participle of dress up.

Synonyms of dressed up

Forms of dressed up

comparativemore dressed up
superlativemost dressed up

Words formed from dressed up

Questions about dressed up

What does dressed up mean?
Dressed up means wearing formal (dress) clothes.
What part of speech is dressed up?
Dressed up is an adjective.

Words near dressed up in the dictionary

  1. dressed out
  2. dressed the house
  3. dressed the part
  4. dressed to kill
  5. dressed to the nines
  6. dressed up
  7. dressed up like a Christmas tree
  8. dressed up like a dog's dinner
  9. dressed up to the nines
  10. Dressel
  11. Dressel acid

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