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dressy

/ˈdɹɛsi/

dressy adjective: elegant, smart, or stylish.

Adjective

dressy (comparative dressier, superlative dressiest)

  1. Elegant, smart, or stylish.
  2. Fond of dressing up; keen on fashion.
    • We have mentioned that he exhibited a certain partiality for rings, jewellery, and fine raiment of all sorts; and it must be owned that Mr. Pen, during his time at the university, was rather a dressy man, and loved to array himself in splendour.1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 19, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published...

dressy meaning in Tamil and Malayalam

dressy in Tamil

குலுக்கி, குலுக்குக்காரி

dressy in Malayalam

formal, smart, elaborate
പരിഷ്കൃതവേഷമായ, പരിഷ്കാരിയായ, ഔപചാരികവേഷമായ, അലംകൃതമായ, ചമൽക്കൃത, മോടിയുള്ള

Examples of dressy in a sentence

  • Your palette contains sporty colors, dressy colors, neutrals, basics, and bright accent colors.
  • Yukata, however, do not have flutter sleeves, as they are considered too dressy for this informal kimono.
  • Brown soft kid belt (dressier day): for trousers (especially when you belt an overtop), skirts, dresses.

All 10 example sentences with dressy

Forms of dressy

comparativedressier
superlativedressiest

Origin of dressy

From dress + -y.

Words formed from dressy

Words that rhyme with dressy

Questions about dressy

What does dressy mean?
Dressy means elegant, smart, or stylish.
What is dressy in Tamil?
Dressy in Tamil is குலுக்கி, குலுக்குக்காரி. See Dressy meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is dressy?
Dressy is an adjective.
How do you pronounce dressy?
Dressy is pronounced /ˈdɹɛsi/.

Words near dressy in the dictionary

  1. dressmaking
  2. dressmakings
  3. dresspants
  4. dresst
  5. dresswear
  6. dressy
  7. drest
  8. dret
  9. dretch
  10. dretched
  11. dretches

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: dressy (page history and authors); dressy (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); dressy (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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