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Synonyms for garb

  • noun
  • verb

Most common

clothes clothing costume attire fit-out

Synonyms by meaning

Noun

1. Attire

attire, costume, clothes, clothing, guise, disguise, vestment, appearance, wardrobe, vesture, habiliment, raiment formal dated, duds dated

Other

fit-out

Verb

dress, apparel, garment, clothe, habit, habilitate, tog, enclothe, robe, dight dated

Definitions

  1. n. 1

    Fashion, style of dressing oneself up.

  2. v. 1

    To dress in garb.

Forms

Plural
garbs → attires, costumes, clothings, guises…
Past participle
garbed
e.g. garbed → drest, appareled, garmented, clothed…

Choose the right word

Garb or Clothing?

Garb denotes the clothing characteristic of some class, profession, or the like; as, the garb of a priest.

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

Example sentences

  • clothes Please look at the girl who wore the blue clothes.
  • clothing She bought articles of clothing one after another.
  • costume Ziri walked over to Rima in a traditional costume.
  • attire The neatness of his attire was almost incredible.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
garbrising
clothesrising
clothingrising
costumerising
attirerising

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

By length

3 letters
tog
4 letters
robe1, duds1
5 letters
dress1, habit2, guise1, dight
6 letters
attire3, clothe1
7 letters
clothes1, costume2, apparel3, garment2, raiment, vesture
8 letters
clothing2, wardrobe2, disguise2, vestment2, enclothe
10 letters
appearance3, habiliment, habilitate

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