Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

dressed up

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.41 in modern English

Syllables
dressed up
IPA
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Wearing formal (dress) clothes.

adj

Wearing a costume.

verb

simple past and past participle of dress up

Example Sentences

Inflected Forms

more dressed up (comparative) most dressed up (superlative)

Phrases

all dressed up and nowhere to go dressed up like a Christmas tree dressed up like a dog's dinner mutton dressed up as lamb

Synonyms

endimanched

Questions

What does dressed up mean?
Wearing formal (dress) clothes.

How to pronounce dressed up

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