Synonyms for clothing
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Noun
1. Clothes — any of a wide variety of articles, usually made of fabrics, animal hair, animal skin, or some combination…
clothes, apparel, attire, garment, dress, wear, garb, wardrobe, wearable, vesture, item of clothing, piece of clothing, raiment formal dated, duds informal dated UK US, threads slang, habiliment rare
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Definitions
- n. 1
Any of a wide variety of articles, usually made of fabrics, animal hair, animal skin, or some combination thereof, used to cover the human body for warmth, to preserve modesty, or for fashion.
Marco runs a clothing brand.
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Forms
- Plural
- clothings → apparels, attires, garments, dresses…
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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
- clothes Please look at the girl who wore the blue clothes.
- apparel We went up two floors to reach the apparel stalls.
- garment 2. Sew together the shoulder of the garment body.
- attire The neatness of his attire was almost incredible.
- dressing I don't know how to make Thousand Island dressing.
By length
- 4 letters
- wear1, garb1, duds1
- 5 letters
- dress1
- 6 letters
- attire3
- 7 letters
- clothes1, threads1, apparel3, garment2, raiment, vesture
- 8 letters
- dressing2, wardrobe2, wearable3
- 10 letters
- habiliment
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (attire3 = 3 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- habillement
- Italiano
- abbigliamento
- Español
- indumentaria
- Català
- indumentària