dress-up

Verbs

  • (v) put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive
    • She never dresses up, even when she goes to the opera
    • The young girls were all fancied up for the party
    attire, deck out, deck up, fancy up, fig out, fig up, gussy up, rig out, tog out, tog up, trick out, trick up, overdress, prink, get up,
  • (v) make something appear superficially attractive
    • The researcher tried to dress up the uninteresting data
    • Don't try to dress up the unpleasant truth
    window-dress,
  • (v) put a caparison on
    • caparison the horses for the festive occasion
    bard, barde, caparison,
  • (v) dress in a costume
    • We dressed up for Halloween as pumpkins
    costume,
  • (v) dress in a certain manner
    • She dresses in the latest Paris fashion
    • he dressed up in a suit and tie
    dress,

Synonyms

attire deck out deck up fancy up fig out fig up gussy up rig out tog out tog up trick out trick up overdress prink get up window-dress bard barde caparison costume dress

Antonyms

dress down underdress

See also

dress get dressed

Words of close approximity