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Synonyms for clothes

  • noun

Most common

dress clothing apparel attire drapery finery

All synonyms

Noun

1. Clothing

clothing, apparel, dress, attire, garment, wardrobe, garb, costume, vesture, vestment, habit, investment, rig, guise, wearing apparel dated, duds dated, raiment formal dated, habiliment rare

Other

things, finery, thing, drapery

Definitions

  1. n. 1

    Items of clothing; apparel.

Related words

Word family
clothesless clothespin clothist clothing
Phrases
clothes iron clothes tree clothes basket clothes stand clothes bag clothes dryer clothes hanger clothes maiden

Choose the right word

Clothes, Clothing or Garments?

Clothing denotes the entire covering of the body, taken as a whole; clothes and garments view it as composed of separate parts.

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

Example sentences

  • dress She stood out because she was wearing a red dress.
  • clothing She bought articles of clothing one after another.
  • apparel We went up two floors to reach the apparel stalls.
  • attire The neatness of his attire was almost incredible.
  • drapery The white drapery does not blend with the black wall.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
clothesrising
dressrising
clothingrising
apparelsteady
attirerising
draperyfalling

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

By length

3 letters
rig1
4 letters
garb1, duds1
5 letters
thing1, dress1, habit2, guise1
6 letters
things1, attire3, finery3
7 letters
costume2, apparel3, garment2, drapery3, raiment, vesture
8 letters
clothing2, wardrobe2, vestment2
10 letters
investment3, habiliment

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

In other languages

Français
vêtements
Deutsch
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