Crossword clues for dressy
dressy
- For formals
- For formal occasions
- Fancy in apparel
- Definitely not come-as-you-are
- Appropriate for a formal dinner
- A bit formal
- U-turn from casual
- Suitable for a formal dinner
- Stylish, as garb
- Somewhat formal
- Requiring ones Sunday best
- Requiring formal wear
- Requiring a tux, say
- Requiring a tie
- Like upscale parties
- Like the Met Gala
- Like tails
- Like prom gowns
- Like pants worn to a gala
- Like most wedding attire
- Like Million Dollar Mind Game outfits
- Like garb for a gala
- Like galas
- Like formal parties
- Like formal attire
- Like evening wear
- Like attire at the Academy Awards
- Like a top hat and tails
- Kind of clothes
- Formal, fashion-wise
- Formal, as clothes
- Fancy, as clothing
- Fancy, as attire
- Fancy, as a gala
- Describing white tie and tails
- Clad in fine attire
- Casual's opposite, clothes-wise
- Black-tie, for example
- Beyond "business casual"
- Smart (attire)
- Ornate
- Requiring a tie, e.g
- Fancy, as clothes
- Sharp
- Nice, as clothes
- Formally attired
- Stylish, as suits
- Not casual (attire)
- Somewhat formal, as attire
- Like gala attire
- Like clothes at formal occasions
- Modish
- Chic
- Showy in attire
- Chichi
- Like a formal affair
- Elaborate
- Stylish; elegant
- Sartorially elegant
- Wearing stylish clothing
- Stylish, clean and young
- Stops losing time over middle of day? That's smart
- Smart, formal
- Fancy — disheartened squirrels trapped in their nest
- Liking to wear fancy or formal clothes
- Three cardinals with boring clothing? Far from it
- Suitable for evening wear
- Like formal clothing
- Like an evening gown
- Rather formal
- Highly fashionable
- Formal, sartorially
- Formal, fashionwise
- Stylish (clothes)
- Requiring fancy duds
- Like formalwear
- Like evening gowns
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dressy \Dress"y\, a. Showy in dress; attentive to dress.
A dressy flaunting maidservant.
--T. Hook.
A neat, dressy gentleman in black.
--W. Irving.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1760s, from dress (v.) + -y (2).\n "For as her natural face decays, her skill improves in making the artificial one. Well, nothing diverts me more than one of those fine, old, dressy things, who thinks to conceal her age by everywhere exposing her person; sticking herself up in the front of a side-box; trailing through a minuet at Almack's; and then, in the public gardens looking, for all the world, like one of the painted ruins of the place." [Goldsmith, "The Good Natured Man," 1768].
Wiktionary
a. elegant, smart or stylish
WordNet
Usage examples of "dressy".
They were among the first group to break in and Dressier was one of those now ominously still.
In February MOM premiered Broadway Melody a huge box-office success followed by Hollywood Revue of 1929, offering such stars as Marie Dressier, Norma Shearer, John Gilbert, Laurel and Hardy and Joan Crawford.
Most of the settlers contented themselves with the coveralls and work clothes the Project provided, along with shifts, tunics, and pants that were easy to make from imported fabrics, but lately a few were wearing slightly dressier clothes.
He had also bathed and wore the dressier blue velvet trousers and tunic, and short boots.
Anna briefly enjoyed the cool while she washed and donned the dressier tunic and trousers she had created for meeting with Lady Essan.
We should be able to find something a little dressier but just as easy to put on.
He was wearing his usual working gear of jeans, turtleneck and windbreaker, having no need on board ship for dressier outfits.
Mystic, Connecticut, they changed into something dressier than their work clothes.
His attire was not only dressier than last night, but also far less slick.
Barton James of number one Harmony avenue, Donnybrook, on which sat a fare, a young gentleman, stylishly dressed in an indigoblue serge suit made by George Robert Mesias, tailor and cutter, of number five Eden quay, and wearing a straw hat very dressy, bought of John Plasto of number one Great Brunswick street, hatter.
She saw Kalek Minderisnir, a scarfaced, bandy-legged little man who commanded the Blue Riders, and Sobanai Company, whose dapper commander looked, to Paks, too dressy to be a good fighter.
His is hardly one of the dressy professions but I have seen his confreres blanch when confronted by some of his ensembles.
Though the Nolans lived in the shabbiest house in Irish Town, the boys were the dressiest in the neighborhood.
He considered his dressiest Sunday black suit, then decided that it would be awkward in the morning.
And Josiah sez now that he bought it for that purpose, for the bedquilt, because he loves to see a dressy quilt, -- sez he always enjoys seein' a cabin look sort o' gay.