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dressed

  • adjective
  • /ˈdɹɛst/

Having been subjected to a preparatory process or treatment; treated, prepared.

Other meanings

  1. Prepared for eating, especially by the addition of specific condiments or dressing.

  2. Wearing clothes; attired (now often with qualifying word).

Related words

  • halfdressed
  • brain-dressed
  • nondressed
  • dressed herring
  • rough-dressed
  • all dressed
  • all-dressed
  • cladly dressed
  • dressed to kill
  • dressed to the nines
  • dressed up
  • evening-dressed

Example sentences

  • “I'll get dressed in a second.”

    Tatoeba · ddnktr · CC0

  • “Tell me how you are dressed, I'll tell you what you ate.”

    Tatoeba · AmarMecheri · CC0

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “dressed” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.