well-dressed

[wel-drest] / ˈwɛlˈdrɛst /

ADJECTIVE

dressed to the nines

Synonyms

WEAK

dolled up dressed to advantage dressed to kill dressed to the teeth dressed-up gussied up in full dress in full feather soignée spiffed up spruced up well-turned-out

ADJECTIVE

handsome

Synonyms

STRONGEST

attractive beautiful clean-cut dapper elegant good-looking graceful lovely personable smart smooth stately stylish suave

WEAK

aristocratic august becoming comely fine impressive majestic noble pulchritudinous robust sharp spruce strong virile well-proportioned

Antonyms

STRONGEST

awkward disagreeable dull homely rough ruffled ugly unfashionable unsophisticated unstylish wrinkled

WEAK

unattractive

Example Sentences

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But I noticed a well-dressed man in the far corner of the room standing as still and stiff as a candlestick.

From Literature

It’s a traditional sort of U.K. series, a well-dressed postwar period piece with an eccentric detective at its center.

From Los Angeles Times

A well-dressed crowd had begun to gather in front of the Bolshoi Kamenny, but she avoided the main entrance and instead made her way to the alley that ran alongside the building.

From Literature

And it was Old Timothy who had apparently directed the dogs to lead this well-dressed hunting party everywhere but where Bertha might be found.

From Literature

“Well… I’m not a lawyer yet, I just play a very well-dressed one on TV,” Kardashian wrote on Instagram.

From Los Angeles Times

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