Word Meanings - DRESSINESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The state of being dressy.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DRESSINESS)

• Finery
• Overornament
• tawdriness
• tinsel
• gewgaw
• trinkets
• trash
• dressiness
• bedizenment

Related words: (words related to DRESSINESS)

• DRESSINESS
  The state of being dressy.
• GEWGAW
  A showy trifle; a toy; a splendid plaything; a pretty but worthless bauble. A heavy gewgaw called a crown. Dryden. (more info) as OE. givegove gewgaw, apparently a reduplicated form fr. AS. gifan to give; cf. also F. joujou plaything, and E. gaud,
• TRASHILY
  In a trashy manner.
• TRASHY
  Like trash; containing much trash; waste; rejected; worthless; useless; as, a trashy novel.
• FINERY
  A charcoal hearth or furnace for the conversion of cast iron into wrought iron, or into iron suitable for puddling. (more info) 1. Fineness; beauty. Don't choose your place of study by the finery of the prospects. I. Watts. 2. Ornament; decoration;
• BEDIZENMENT
  That which bedizens; the act of dressing, or the state of being dressed, tawdrily.
• TAWDRINESS
  Quality or state of being tawdry. A clumsy person makes his ungracefulness more ungraceful by tawdriness of dress. Richardson.
• TRASH
  1. That which is worthless or useless; rubbish; refuse. Who steals my purse steals trash. Shak. A haunch of venison would be trash to a Brahmin. Landor. 2. Especially, loppings and leaves of trees, bruised sugar cane, or the like. Note: In the
• TINSEL
  1. A shining material used for ornamental purposes; especially, a very thin, gauzelike cloth with much gold or silver woven into it; also, very thin metal overlaid with a thin coating of gold or silver, brass foil, or the like. Who can discern
• TRASHINESS
  The quality or state of being trashy.
• TINSELLY
  Like tinsel; gaudy; showy, but cheap.
• REFINERY
  1. The building and apparatus for refining or purifying, esp. metals and sugar. 2. A furnace in which cast iron is refined by the action of a blast on the molten metal.