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Too informally clothed for the occasion
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underdressed
Word definitions for underdressed in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
clothed \clothed\ adj. 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, ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. inadequately or too informally clothed
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
1 Insufficiently dressed, ''as'' for cold weather. 2 Insufficiently well-dressed, ''as'' for a formal event. v (en-past of: underdress )
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Without a pinstripe, you'd be underdressed .
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also under-dressed , "too plainly dressed," 1759, from under (adv.) + past participle of dress (v.).
Usage examples of underdressed.
I felt a little underdressed, wearing only a suit while most men wore tuxedoes, but the feeling soon passed.
Both were looking very much the tourist, clean-shaven, clean hair, not overdressed as businessmen, not underdressed as slobs.
It would serve this lady right, Maisie gathered, if that contract, in the shape of an overgrown and underdressed daughter, should be shipped straight out to her and landed at her feet in the midst of scandalous excesses.
In front of the eating house known as the Final Opportunity, a well-built, scantily dressed woman posed against a painted board while the knives thrown by her equally underdressed partner flashed and thudded all around her.