What is "overdress" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does overdress mean in English? Meaning of overdress definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "overdress" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "overdress": dress too warmly

Verb

  • Meaning: dress too warmly
  • Example: You should not overclothe the child--she will be too hot
  • Synonyms: overclothe overdress
  • Hypernyms: apparel clothe dress enclothe fit out garb garment habilitate raiment tog
  • Antonyms: underdress
  • Meaning of "overdress": put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive

    Verb

  • Meaning: put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive
  • Example: She never dresses up, even when she goes to the opera The young girls were all fancied up for the party
  • Synonyms: attire deck out deck up dress up fancy up fig out fig up get up gussy up overdress prink rig out tog out tog up trick out trick up
  • Hyponyms: bedizen dizen dress enrobe plume prank preen primp tart up
  • Hypernyms: dress get dressed
  • Antonyms: dress down underdress
  • Also see: dress get dressed
  • Synonyms:

    mantle, shawl, cope, cloak, wrapper, cardinal, wrap, poncho, gabardine, tippet, pelisse, Vandyke, capote, mantilla, tabard, dolman, fichu, bertha, manteau, mantelletta, paletot, pelerine, talma, victorine, spruce up, clothe, attire, embellish, array, beautify, fix up, improve, preen, primp, slick, smarten, deck out, fit out, gussy up, prettify, prink, spiff up, titivate,

    Antonyms:

    dress down, dress casually,

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