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Synonyms for raiment

  • noun

Most common

clothing apparel garb vesture

All synonyms

Noun

1. Clothing — clothing, garments, dress, material

clothing, garb, apparel, vesture, dress, clothes, attire, array, vestment, costume, regalia, habit, habiliment, robe, guise

Definitions

  1. n. 1

    Clothing, garments, dress, material.

Forms

Plural
raiments → clothings, garbs, apparels, vestures…

Choose the right word

Raiment, Clothes, Clothing or Garments?

Clothes, clothing, and garments may be used of inner or outer covering; all the other words in the list (with possible rare exceptions in the case of raiment) refer to the outer garments.

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

Example sentences

  • clothing She bought articles of clothing one after another.
  • apparel We went up two floors to reach the apparel stalls.
  • garb Dressed in ceremonial garb, he began the ritual.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
raimentrising
clothingrising
apparelsteady
garbrising
vesturesteady

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

By length

4 letters
robe1, garb1
5 letters
dress1, habit2, array2, guise1
6 letters
attire3
7 letters
clothes1, costume2, apparel3, regalia3, vesture
8 letters
clothing2, vestment2
10 letters
habiliment

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