Overdress

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  overdress \o`ver*dress"\, v. t.
     To dress or adorn to excess; to dress too much; to dress too
     formally for an informal occasion. --Pope.
     [1913 Webster +PJC]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  overdress
       v 1: dress excessively; "You should not overclothe the child--she
            will be too hot" [syn: {overclothe}]
       2: put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and
          attractive; "She never dresses up, even when she goes to
          the opera"; "The young girls were all fancied up for the
          party" [syn: {dress up}, {fig out}, {fig up}, {deck up}, {gussy
          up}, {fancy up}, {trick up}, {deck out}, {trick out}, {prink},
           {attire}, {get up}, {rig out}, {tog up}, {tog out}] [ant:
           {dress down}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  19 Moby Thesaurus words for "overdress":
     bedizen, deck out, dizen, doll up, dress up, fancy up, fig out,
     get up, gussy up, prank, pretty up, primp, prink, rag out,
     slick up, spruce up, titivate, trick out, trick up