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underdressed
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
underdressed
adjective
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▪ Without a pinstripe, you'd be underdressed.
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underdressed

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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
underdressed

also under-dressed, "too plainly dressed," 1759, from under (adv.) + past participle of dress (v.).

Wiktionary
underdressed

  1. 1 Insufficiently dressed, ''as'' for cold weather. 2 Insufficiently well-dressed, ''as'' for a formal event. v

  2. (en-past of: underdress)

WordNet
underdressed

adj. inadequately or too informally clothed

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.