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underdress

underdress verb: to dress in insufficiently warm clothes.

Verb

underdress (third-person singular simple present underdresses, present participle underdressing, simple past and past participle underdressed)

  1. (intransitive, transitive) To dress in insufficiently warm clothes.
  2. (intransitive, transitive) To dress in insufficiently formal clothes.

Noun

underdress (countable and uncountable, plural underdresses)

  1. (countable) Any dress (feminine-style garment) worn under another, especially under an overdress.
  2. Any garment (any clothing) that is worn under another but is not underwear.

Antonyms of underdress

Forms of underdress

Verb
third-person singular presentunderdresses
present participleunderdressing
past participleunderdressed
pastunderdressed
Noun
pluralunderdresses

Origin of underdress

From under- + dress.

Questions about underdress

What does underdress mean?
Underdress means to dress in insufficiently warm clothes.
What part of speech is underdress?
Underdress can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of underdress?
The past tense of underdress is underdressed.

Words near underdress in the dictionary

  1. underdrawers
  2. underdrawing
  3. underdrawings
  4. underdrawn
  5. underdraws
  6. underdress
  7. underdressed
  8. underdresser
  9. underdressers
  10. underdresses
  11. underdressing

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