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halfdressed

halfdressed adjective: wearing few articles of clothing; scantily clad.

Adjective

halfdressed (comparative more halfdressed, superlative most halfdressed)

  1. Wearing few articles of clothing; scantily clad.
    • Colette screamed up the stairs and halfdressed girls and their halfdressed customers hurried and stumbled and got up again and made it into the street where they all began pointing and yelling and then the street shook itself alive as the fire spred quickly across the third floor and fell into the...2021, Michael Farris Smith, chapter 24, in Nick, New York; Boston; London: Little, Brown and Company, page 132

Forms of halfdressed

comparativemore halfdressed
superlativemost halfdressed

Origin of halfdressed

From half- + dressed.

Questions about halfdressed

What does halfdressed mean?
Halfdressed means wearing few articles of clothing; scantily clad.
What part of speech is halfdressed?
Halfdressed is an adjective.

Words near halfdressed in the dictionary

  1. halfdead
  2. halfdeck
  3. halfdecks
  4. halfdemon
  5. halfdemons
  6. halfdressed
  7. halfe
  8. halfe-pence
  9. halfed
  10. halfedge
  11. halfedges

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