dress up meaning and definition

DRESS UP verb

Definition of dress up (verb)

1. put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive
   • "She never dresses up, even when she goes to the opera"; "The young girls were all fancied up for the party"
   • synonyms: attire, deck out, deck up, fancy up, fig out, fig up, get up, gussy up, overdress, prink, rig out, tog out, tog up, trick out, trick up
   • antonym: dress down
2. make something appear superficially attractive
   • "The researcher tried to dress up the uninteresting data"; "Don't try to dress up the unpleasant truth"
   • synonyms: window-dress
3. put a caparison on
   • "caparison the horses for the festive occasion"
   • synonyms: bard, barde, caparison
4. dress in a costume
   • "We dressed up for Halloween as pumpkins"
   • synonyms: costume
5. dress in a certain manner
   • "She dresses in the latest Paris fashion"; "he dressed up in a suit and tie"
   • synonyms: dress