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Princeton's WordNet

  1. dressed(p), dressed-up, dressed to the nines(p), dressed to kill(p), dolled up, spruced up, spiffed up, togged upadjective

    dressed in fancy or formal clothing

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  1. dressed-up

    Dressed-up typically refers to wearing clothes that are more formal or fancy than one's regular everyday attire. It may involve wearing a suit, a formal gown, costumes, or other special attire. This term is often used in contexts where one is preparing for a special event, party, holiday gathering or formal ceremony.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of dressed-up in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of dressed-up in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of dressed-up in a Sentence

  1. Rob Shuter:

    Get all dressed up. She is a beautiful lady with an amazing body, she needs to hit the town with her girlfriends. A picture is worth a thousand words.

  2. Kaylah Bell:

    I decided to ask my grandpa to take pictures with me because I knew that he has never had a prom, and he hasn’t experienced getting dressed up and buying a corsage and all of that.

  3. Mark Corallo:

    I understand David Vitter's desire to score political points against Bill Clinton. I was in the Bill Clinton opposition business long before anyone had heard of David Vitter. And by all means it should be open season on Bill Clinton, but we should be careful to base our political attacks on facts, not innuendo dressed up as a Congressional inquiry. We shouldn't treat everyone who ever associated with the Clinton's as collateral damage.

  4. Los Angeles:

    I was completely in shock, when I saw someone else in a costume, my first reaction wasn't' Oh ! It's Alec Wells !' My reaction was' Oh ! Some other weirdo dressed up in the streets ! It's a Halloween miracle !' I figured it out pretty quickly, though, and when I did, I was so completely overwhelmed. It hit me that Alec Wells created an incredibly magical moment for me, and all because Alec Wells wanted to spend the rest of Alec Wells life with me.

  5. Read MoreFanning:

    We totally won, we went all out, the cast. Like, we had this group chat, going dressed up as, like, celebrities, people from, you know, different characters in film.


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