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/ˈkɹɒsˌdɹɛ.sə/ · noun
A person who wears clothing which society considers appropriate only for members of the opposite sex..
For the buildings John uses plastic sheeting employed in the window banners of a particular ladies' clothing chain. [...] I asked John if the sales assistants in those shops thought he was odd, walking in and asking for bits of plastic. 'What you've got to remember,' he said, 'is that they get a lot of cross-dressers going in there, so I'm not that weird in comparison.'
Use cross-dresser when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Cross-dresser means A person who wears clothing which society considers appropriate only for members of the opposite sex..
Common synonyms include x-dresser, CD, CDer, XD.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
For the buildings John uses plastic sheeting employed in the window banners of a particular ladies' clothing chain. [...] I asked John if the sales assistants in those shops thought he was odd, walking in and asking for bits of plastic. 'What you've got to remember,' he said, 'is that they get a lot of cross-dressers going in there, so I'm not that weird in comparison.'
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