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dress up

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of dress up

1 to put on oneʼs best or formal clothes

  • we always like to dress up when going to parties
Synonyms of dress up

doll up, dress
Words Related to dress up

preen, primp, prink, smarten (up)

accessorize

apparel, array, attire, bedeck, bedizen, caparison, clothe, costume, deck, dude (up), garb, garment, invest, rig (out), robe, suit, tog (out or up)

2 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
Synonyms of dress up

camouflage, cloak, disguise, mask
Words Related to dress up

blanket, blot out, conceal, cover, curtain, enshroud, hide, obscure, occult, screen, shroud, veil

affect, assume, counterfeit, dissemble, dissimulate, feign, pose, pretend, sham, simulate

act, fake, impersonate, masquerade, play

cosmeticize, gild, gloss (over), varnish, whitewash
Near Antonyms of dress up

display, exhibit, expose, flaunt, parade, show, uncloak, unclothe, uncover, undrape, unveil

bare, betray, disclose, discover, divulge, expose, reveal
Antonyms of dress up

unmask

3 to make more desirable

  • dressed up the house with new windows and a paint job before putting it on the market
Synonyms of dress up

candy, enhance, sweeten
Words Related to dress up

ameliorate, enrich, improve, meliorate

embellish, soup up, trick

cosmeticize, doll up, spruce

4 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
Synonyms of dress up

apparel, array, attire, bedeck, caparison, clothe, costume, deck (out), do up, dress, enrobe, garb, garment, get up, gown, habit, invest, rig (out), robe, suit, tog (up or out), toilet, vesture
Words Related to dress up

cloak, frock, jacket, mantle, vest

drape, enswathe, hap [dialect], huddle, swaddle, swathe, wrap

accoutre (or accouter), bedight [archaic], equip, furnish, habilitate, outfit, tailor, uniform

dress down, underdress
Near Antonyms of dress up

denude, divest, uncover, undrape, unveil
Antonyms of dress up

disarray, disrobe, strip, unclothe, undress, untruss [archaic]

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