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| Main Entry: |
getup
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dress |
| Synonyms: | Sunday best, accouterment, apparel, attire, attirement, civvies, costume, covering, drape, dry goods, duds, ensemble, evening clothes, frock, garb, gear, gown, guise, habiliment, habit, muumuu, outfit, raiment, robe, shift, skirt, smock, suit, things* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | array |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fine clothes |
| Synonyms: | apparel, attire, drapes, dress, duds, finery, full dress, garb, garments, getup, rig, threads |
| Main Entry: | attire |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | clothing |
| Synonyms: | accoutrements, apparel, array, bib and tucker, clothes, costume, drapes, dress, duds, garb, garments, gear, getup, habiliments, habit, outfit, raiment, things, threads, togs, uniform, vestment, wear |
| Notes: | apparel highlights the sense of clothes as material; attire, the sense of clothes as dress |
| Main Entry: | composition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | written or musical creation |
| Synonyms: | arrangement, article, cantata, chart, concerto, dissertation, drama, essay, exercise, exposition, fiction, getup, literary work, manuscript, melody, music, novel, number, opus, paper, piece, play, poetry, rhapsody, romance, score, setup, short story, song, stanza, study, symphony, theme, thesis, tune, verse, work, writing |
| Main Entry: | costume |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | set of clothes |
| Synonyms: | apparel, attire, clothing, dress, duds, ensemble, fashion, garb, getup, guise, livery, mode, outfit, rig, robes, style, suit, uniform, wardrobe |
| Notes: | costume and custom were actually two forms of the same Latin root consuetudinem 'habit, custom,' with costume first meaning 'manners and customs belonging to a particular time and place' |
| Main Entry: | sentence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | punishing decree |
| Synonyms: | book, censure, clock, condemnation, considered opinion, decision, determination, dictum, doom, edict, fall, getup, hitch, jolt, judgment, knock, order, penalty, pronouncement, punishment, rap, ruling, sending up the river, sleep, stretch, term, time, trick, vacation, verdict |
| Antonyms: | accusation, charge |
| Main Entry: | suit |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | matching top and bottom clothing |
| Synonyms: | clothing, costume, dress, ensemble, getup, gray flannel, habit, livery, outfit, threads, tuxedo, uniform, wardrobe |
| Main Entry: | clothes/clothing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | personal attire |
| Synonyms: | Sunday best, accouterment, apparel, array, caparison, civvies, costume, covering, drag*, drapery, dress, duds, ensemble, equipment, finery, frippery, frock, full feather, garb, garments, gear, get-up, habiliment, habit, hand-me-downs, livery, mufti, outfit, overclothes, panoply, rags, raiment, regalia, rigging, sack, sportswear, tailleur, tatters, things*, threads, toggery, togs, tout ensemble, trappings, trousseau, underclothes, vestment, vesture, vines, wardrobe, wear, weeds, zoot suit |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | disguise |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | covering, makeup for deception |
| Synonyms: | beard, blind, camouflage, charade, cloak, color, coloring, concealment, costume, counterfeit, cover-up, dissimulation, dress, facade, face, faking, false front, fig leaf, front*, get-up, guise, illusion, make-believe, mask, masquerade, pageant, pen name, pretense, pretension, pretentiousness, pseudonym, put-on, red herring, screen, semblance, smoke screen, trickery, veil, veneer |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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