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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
overdressed
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ We were completely overdressed for the party.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ It was decorated with an overdressed pale-blue rabbit in non-toxic paint.
▪ Juliet wondered if she were overdressed, but the admiring look he gave her dispelled that thought.
▪ Nor was she about to lose her jacket to a gaggle of overdressed hooligans.
▪ Not one of them was not overdressed.
▪ She took various forms, but was usually overdressed and over voluble.
▪ The bridge-playing girls had arrived, a collection of overdressed, overpainted forty-year-olds.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
overdressed

clothed \clothed\ adj.

  1. wearing clothing. [Narrower terms: adorned(predicate), bedecked(predicate), decked(predicate), decked out(predicate); appareled, attired, clad, dressed, garbed, garmented, habilimented, robed; arrayed, panoplied; breeched, pantalooned, trousered; bundled-up; caparisoned; cassocked: costumed: decent] [Narrower terms: dight] [Narrower terms: dressed-up, dressed to the nines(predicate), dressed to kill(predicate), dolled up, spruced up, spiffed up] [Narrower terms: heavy-coated] [Narrower terms: overdressed] [Narrower terms: petticoated] [Narrower terms: red-coated, lobster-backed] [Narrower terms: surpliced] [Narrower terms: togged dressed esp in smart clothes)] [Narrower terms: turned out] [Narrower terms: underdressed] [Narrower terms: uniformed] [Narrower terms: vestmented] Also See: adorned, decorated. Antonym: unclothed.

  2. covered with or as if with clothes or a wrap or cloak. fog-cloaked meadows

    Syn: cloaked, draped, mantled, wrapped.

Wiktionary
overdressed

a. (en-past of: overdress)

WordNet
overdressed

adj. dressed too elaborately

Wikipedia
Overdressed

Overdressed is the eighth major studio release from Caedmon's Call, released in August 2007. It features collaboration with former member and successful solo artist Derek Webb. If the album is ordered through Caedmon's Call's website, you can order the Limited Edition, which has two additional tracks.

Usage examples of "overdressed".

They're easy to recognize because they're the overpaid, overdressed bastards with swords and you aim for them first.

Those men are what soldiers always are: victims of their officers, and if you want to find where the French have sown their mischief, sir, then you look among those damned, overpaid, overdressed, overfed bloody officers," and Sharpe threw a scornful glance towards the Real Companïa Irlandesa's officers who seemed unsure whether or not they were supposed to follow their men northwards.

A horse and cavalryman struck by a volley kept moving forward, turned in an instant from war's gaudiest killers into so much overdressed meat, but the meat could still smash a square's face apart by its sheer dead weight.

He was a small man, and because of his obsession with complex equipment and uniforms he always looked overdressed and somewhat top-heavy.

A client named Willa, who always overdressed, was wearing nothing except what appeared to be every piece of jewelry in the room.

It was the overdressed girl of the Annemasse buffet, the girl who had seemed to understand then, who seemed to understand now.

And in a minute or two she came out again on to the earth platform and he saw that she was not overdressed to-day.

He was not supposed to be cowering in his pajamas, terrified of the touch of an overdressed fake spiritualist with a poison ring.

Except for the overdressed trio at one table, clearly there to prey on customers, the women wore merchant-spacers' coveralls, good quality but not stylish.

It was amusing to watch the elegant, and sometimes overdressed, ladies having to pick up their heavy skirts and run in awkward little steps across the hot sands.

Henryk thought she looked over sixty, overweight, over-madeup and overdressed, but she had a warm smile and seemed to know everyone, moving from table to table, chatting to the regular Waldorf-Astoria tea set.