dress up
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
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- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive
She never dresses up, even when she goes to the opera
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Sense 2 verb
make something appear superficially attractive
The researcher tried to dress up the uninteresting data
Types & categories
- fancify hypernym
Sense 3 verb
put a caparison on
caparison the horses for the festive occasion
Types & categories
- ornament hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 4 verb
dress in a costume
We dressed up for Halloween as pumpkins
Types & categories
- apparel hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 5 verb
dress in a certain manner
She dresses in the latest Paris fashion
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Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | also see | Related & opposite | dress |
| 1 | antonym | Related & opposite | dress down |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | attire |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | getup |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | rigout |
| 1 | verb group | Related & opposite | dress |
| 1 | verb group | Related & opposite | costume |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | dress |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | primp |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | prank |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | tart up |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | enrobe |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | dizen |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | fancify |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | bard |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | caparison |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | ornament |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | costume |
| 4 | verb group | Related & opposite | attire |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | apparel |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | attire |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | dresser |
| 5 | verb group | Related & opposite | attire |
| 5 | verb group | Related & opposite | dress |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | dress |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | vest |