GARBED Synonyms: 77 Similar and Opposite Words

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adjective

as in dressed

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garbed

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verb

past tense of garb

as in clothed

to outfit with clothes and especially fine or special clothes firefighters garbed in protective gear

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The Qataris, garbed in white robes with red sashes, sat directly behind the goal in the lower bowl. — Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 13 June 2026 Her father's New Year's greeting card for 2023 showed King Maha Vajiralongkorn and Queen Suthida garbed in somber black, which many Thais saw as confirmation of the gravity of her condition. — CBS News, 12 June 2026 Her father's New Year’s greeting card for 2023 showed King Maha Vajiralongkorn and Queen Suthida garbed in somber black, which many Thais saw as confirmation of the gravity of her condition. — ABC News, 11 June 2026 Many of Furgeson’s subjects were displeased by his haughty musings, which would seem less out of place if he was garbed in a royal mantle and wielding a golden scepter. — Frank Landymore, Futurism, 4 June 2026 He was garbed in prison attire and did not speak during the brief hearing. — Arkansas Online, 24 Jan. 2026 Only baby food, baby bottles and toddler toys were found inside the home, where the teenage boys were discovered garbed in diapers, according to a law enforcement source. — Emma Seiwell, New York Daily News, 24 Jan. 2026 He was garbed in prison attire and did not speak during the brief hearing. — Julie Carr Smyth, Chicago Tribune, 23 Jan. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for garbed

Adjective

Swift rang in the new year with a lively costume party where guests came dressed as their childhood heroes.

— Alyssa Rotunno, InStyle, 4 July 2026
The brides and grooms were all dressed in the same outfits — with the men in blue suits and women in lace and satin gowns.

— Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 1 July 2026

Definition of dressed

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Ed Sheeran strides to Taylor Swift wedding Ed Sheeran, clad in a bright aqua blue suit, arrived holding hands with wife Cherry Seaborn.

— Brendan Morrow, USA Today, 4 July 2026
That was enough for France, whose red, white and blue-clad fans looked plenty patriotic on July Fourth in the city where the United States was founded exactly 250 years earlier.

— Dan Gelston, Chicago Tribune, 4 July 2026

Definition of clothed

Adjective

Dozens of Eckhaus Latta–clad, Tabi-toed aspiring downtown cool kids were lined up around the block to attend a poetry reading at the menswear store, headlined by writer Victoria Rose.

— Chris Murphy, Vanity Fair, 23 June 2026
Playing for a state title in front of thousands of fans, many of the clad in red, was a fitting end.

— Matt Le Cren, Chicago Tribune, 8 June 2026

Definition of clad

Adjective

Its chips are particularly well-suited for the increasing inference segment of AI, offering energy efficiency and bypassing critical manufacturing bottlenecks.

— Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026
The app is especially well suited for beginners, busy professionals and anyone who feels overwhelmed by more complex budgeting systems.

— Catherine Collins, USA Today, 10 July 2026

Definition of suited

Adjective

Frozen spinach can be replaced with fresh spinach; add it to the covered skillet in the final 5 minutes of steaming along with the shrimp.

— The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 July 2026
On the day after Butch died, Will stood on the covered porch holding a cup of lukewarm coffee and looking out at the small pasture where his two white horses grazed.

— Emily Ruskovich, The Atlantic, 7 July 2026

Definition of covered

Adjective

In doing so, their blindness unleashed the very worst of the Caitlin Clark experience, when justifiable anger crosses over into veiled racial attacks.

— Candace Buckner, New York Times, 27 June 2026
However, Senate Democrats argued the policy is a veiled attempt to increase federal control over the election.

— Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 24 June 2026

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