DRESS UP Synonyms: 127 Similar and Opposite Words

dress up

verb

Definition of dress up next

as in to dress

to put on one's best or formal clothes we always like to dress up when going to parties

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as in to disguise

to change the dress or looks of so as to conceal true identity the war was a fiasco that the administration tried to dress up as a triumph

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as in to candy

to make more desirable dressed up the house with new windows and a paint job before putting it on the market

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as in to clothe

to outfit with clothes and especially fine or special clothes the girls were dressed up in skirts or dresses, but the boys were wearing jeans

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Recent Examples of dress up Not the politicians sprinting toward the nearest camera with legal threats dressed up as principle. —

Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 June 2026 Fans of the Spurs are also celebrating the NBA finals by dressing up their pets, mostly corgis, in the team's merch. —

Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 12 June 2026 There are plenty of ways to dress up your vintage bathroom, even on a budget—below, four designers share their best tips. —

Quincy Bulin, Southern Living, 12 June 2026 People dressed up as astronauts on the Nasdaq balcony at closing. —

Ramishah Maruf, CNN Money, 12 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for dress up

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At a game watch party in Mariachi Plaza in Boyle Heights, one of Los Angeles’ most historic and prominent Mexican American communities, the crowd was nearly entirely dressed in Mexico’s forest green.

— Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2026
But one witness, wounded in the shooting, told police that the groups including Payton, Turner, Harris, the Martins and Joshua Hoye-Lucchessi, who was also killed in the shooting, weren’t dressed for the clubs, but for trouble, in hooded sweatshirts.

— Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 19 June 2026