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Synonyms for attire

  • verb
  • noun

Most common

dress clothe dress up robe

Synonyms by meaning

Verb

1. Dress

dress, clothe, dress up, robe, array, fancy up, trick out informal, deck out, equip, deck up, trick up, rig out, fig out, enrobe, accouter US, accoutre UK, gussie up, overdress, prink, habilitate, dight dated

Other

don't, toilet

Noun

clothing, garb, costume, get-up, clothes, outfit, apparel, gear, vestment, vesture, rigging, habiliment, garment, guise, raiment formal dated, habit dated

Antonyms

undress, nakedness, nudity

All antonyms of attire →

Definitions

  1. v. 1

    To clothe or adorn.

    He stood there, attired in his best clothes, waiting for applause.

  2. n. 1

    One's dress; what one wears; one's clothes.

    He was wearing his formal attire.

Forms

Plural
attires → clothings, garbs, costumes, get-ups…
Past participle
attired
e.g. attired → drest, clothed, robed, arrayed…

Choose the right word

Attire, Dress or Apparel?

Dress has now largely displaced apparel and attire.

J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)

Example sentences

  • dress She stood out because she was wearing a red dress.
  • robe Mary slipped off her robe and got into the shower.
  • clothe It's preferable that I clothe you instead of feeding you.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
attirerising
dressrising
roberising
clothesteady

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

4 letters
gear1, robe1, garb1
5 letters
dress1, habit2, array2, equip2, guise1, dight, prink
6 letters
toilet2, outfit2, clothe1, enrobe
7 letters
clothes1, costume2, apparel3, garment2, rigging2, raiment, vesture
8 letters
clothing2, vestment2, accouter, accoutre
9 letters
overdress3
10 letters
habilitate, habiliment

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (habit2 = 2 syllables).