frilly
/ˈfɹɪli/
frilly adjective: having frills; frilled.
Adjective
frilly (comparative frillier, superlative frilliest)
- Having frills; frilled.
- In scented, frilly boutiques that she seemed to find by instinct, they exchanged her battered wardrobe for fur capes and Anna Karenina riding boots that slithered on the frosty cobble, and Pym's dismal school habit for a leather jacket and trousers without buttons for his braces.1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy
- Ms. Grant was dressed up as Little Bo Peep and had on a huge, frilly skirt that was held out with a hoop at the bottom.2006 March 7, Christian Burch, The Manny Files, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 140
- Over-elaborate or showy in character or appearance.
frilly meaning in Urdu and Malayalam
frilly in Urdu
- جھالر در
frilly in Malayalam
- ruffled, flounced, frilled
- തൊങ്ങലുള്ള, തൊങ്ങൽ വച്ചലങ്കരിച്ച, കിന്നരിവച്ച, ചുരുൾത്തൊങ്ങലുള്ള, ഞൊറിവച്ച, ഞൊറിവുകളുള്ള പട്ടവച്ച
Examples of frilly in a sentence
- She was all got up in the most ridiculous frilly dress.
- There’s a nice frilly border around the picture frame.
- Get your pink frilly frocks out, zhuzh up your platinum locks.
Forms of frilly
| comparative | frillier |
|---|---|
| superlative | frilliest |
Origin of frilly
From frill + -y.
Words formed from frilly
Phrases with frilly
Words that rhyme with frilly
Questions about frilly
- What does frilly mean?
- Frilly means having frills; frilled.
- What is frilly in Urdu?
- Frilly in Urdu is جھالر در. See Frilly meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is frilly?
- Frilly is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce frilly?
- Frilly is pronounced /ˈfɹɪli/.
Words near frilly in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: frilly (page history and authors); frilly (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); frilly (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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