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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
dressed
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be dressed in … clothes
▪ The man was dressed in ordinary clothes.
casually dressed
▪ a casually dressed young man
dressed warmly
▪ Make sure that the children are dressed warmly.
fully dressed
▪ She collapsed fully dressed on the bed.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
smartly
▪ Its smartly dressed citizens go about their business as if nothing was happening.
▪ When I looked up I saw it was coming from two smartly dressed men on the long bench-seat opposite.
▪ Robed choirs are in decline in New Zealand, although smartly dressed secular choirs are to be seen on television.
▪ Then, in January 1946, a smartly dressed young Guards officer arrived at the camp with orders to see the Colonel.
▪ A prophecy was given which pictured a smartly dressed young man in a zip-up leather jacket.
▪ The foyer was crowded but it was true that there was not a smartly dressed woman in sight.
■ NOUN
stone
▪ Croydon Corporation were insisting on specially dressed stone setts.
▪ Its earliest parts were built of large cobbles and later additions in small stones, very early brickwork and dressed stone.
woman
▪ An elegantly dressed man and an elegantly dressed woman were sitting opposite each other.
▪ Outside the gates, too, he could see some respectably dressed women.
▪ The foyer was crowded but it was true that there was not a smartly dressed woman in sight.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
mutton dressed as lamb
suitably dressed/prepared/equipped etc
▪ But one must be suitably dressed for a country visit and I had absolutely nothing fit to wear.
▪ They, too, regardless of the loss of their leader, were intent on being suitably dressed for Bank Holiday.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And let me explain what I meant by that silly passage in my last letter, about expensively dressed girls.
▪ How, for example, should one handle the dressed fleas and their garments in terms of a computer record?
▪ I got dressed and they got slightly worse.
▪ She is all style, all form, all impeccably dressed dandy and wit, with never a tear out of place.
▪ She was paralysed, couldn't focus, knew that Gran couldn't hurry herself getting dressed and needed help.
▪ The humiliation of standing beside a woman who smelt, dressed and looked absolutely wonderful was doing little for her ego.
▪ The pavements are packed to overflowing with spectators and yet more immaculately dressed clown children.
▪ While waiting they are pleasantly confronted by what must be one of the prettiest and best dressed greengrocers in the country.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
dressed

dressed \dressed\ adj.

  1. same as attired.

    Syn: appareled, attired, clad, garbed, garmented, habilimented, robed.

  2. covered with medication or a bandage; -- of wounds.

    Syn: bandaged.

  3. trim and smooth; -- of lumber or stone.

    Syn: polished.

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Wiktionary
dressed

vb. 1 (en-past of: dress) 2 (context New Orleans English) Having a sandwich prepared with several fixings, typically lettuce, tomato, and mayonnaise.

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dressed

  1. adj. dressed or clothed especially in fine attire; often used in combination; "the elegantly attired gentleman"; "neatly dressed workers"; "monks garbed in hooded robes"; "went about oddly garmented"; "professors robed in crimson"; "tuxedo-attired gentlemen"; "crimson-robed Harvard professors" [syn: appareled, attired, garbed, garmented, habilimented, robed]

  2. treated with medications and protective covering

  3. (of lumber or stone) to trim and smooth [syn: polished]

  4. dressed in fancy or formal clothing [syn: dressed(p), dressed-up, dressed to the nines(p), dressed to kill(p), dolled up, spruced up, spiffed up, togged up]

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Usage examples of "dressed".

She saw a thin bespectacled man, dressed in light tweed, make his way absentmindedly to his seat and guessed him to be Dr Colin Makepeace.

Accompanied by both Franklin and Lee, Adams arrived at Versailles in all-new French clothes, his wig dressed, and wearing a dress sword, as required at the palace.

He found Adams upstairs in his library seated in a large overstuffed armchair, dressed in a blue coat, a cotton cap covering his bald head.

Petrie kept the guardsmen covered, Adelaide dressed Pickles in a short blue dress, and sandals.

With him came Agata and her husband Don Diego and their children, all dressed up for a feast day.

ISI agents dressed in tan and gray shalwar Kameez robes and carrying AK-47s took positions outside.

After all, he seemed like a decent man, perhaps in his fifties, cleanly dressed in what I regarded as the Alaskan uniform: turtleneck, heavy wool shirt, jeans, and mukluks.

He turned to see what was surely one of the strangest sights the world had ever seen: Petunia Dursley, dressed like a witch, seated next to Albus Dumbledore in a tiny boat.

But one thing I am sure of -- that the innocent delight of the poor Indian Alferez Real, mounted upon his horse, dressed in his motley, barefooted, and overshadowed by his gold-laced hat, was as entire as if he had eaten of all the fruits of all the trees of knowledge of his time, and so perhaps the Jesuits were wise.

He looked so pantherish and male, dressed all in black, lounging at his ease in her cheerful kitchen.

A dozen men dressed most of them in what looked to be pajamas and all of them in rags squatting under the shade of some willows and eating with tin spoons off of clay plates.

There I was, dressed in traditional Amish garb, about to play the mother of a mad, pitchfork-pitching Amishman, in the same barn that had been built by my own Amish ancestors-peaceful ones, all of them.

The Council of Gangres, held in the reign of the Emperor Valens, had anathematised women who dressed as men and cut short their hair.

They scattered to either side as Lord Anda strode out, dressed in his full regalia and accompanied by a servant bearing an ornate lantern on a long pole.

And so they rode to Daphne full pelt, greatly to the anger of the too well dressed Antiochenes, who cursed them for the mud they splashed from wayside pools and for the dung and dust they kicked up into plucked and penciled faces.