What does dressed mean?
Dressed means simple past and past participle of dress.
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/ˈdɹɛst/ · verb
simple past and past participle of dress.
the girls were dressed in green; the shrimp sandwich dressed with lettuce and tomato is their top seller
...he was deadly pale, and the blood-stained bandage round his head told that he had recently been wounded, and still more recently dressed.
No longer would our profession’s stoical symbol of equality be the blindfolded, long-dressed lady holding scales. She would be replaced by a mini-skirted beautiful chick whose blindfold has been pushed up to be used as a head band.
hatted gentlemen and their long-dressed ladies rode on two-horse wagons
She had offered him a lift home from the county ball, a night for long-dressed ladies and uniforms.
Use dressed when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Dressed means simple past and past participle of dress.
Common synonyms include clothed, raimented, clad, polished.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
the girls were dressed in green; the shrimp sandwich dressed with lettuce and tomato is their top seller
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