CLOTHED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does clothed mean? 

• CLOTHED (adjective)
  The adjective CLOTHED has 2 senses:

1. wearing or provided with clothing; sometimes used in combination

2. covered with or as if with clothes or a wrap or cloak

  Familiarity information: CLOTHED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CLOTHED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Wearing or provided with clothing; sometimes used in combination

Synonyms:

clad; clothed

Context example:

white-clad nurses

Similar:

appareled; attired; dressed; garbed; garmented; habilimented; robed (dressed or clothed especially in fine attire; often used in combination)

vestmented (dressed in ceremonial garments especially clerical vestment)

uniformed (dressed in a uniform)

underdressed (inadequately or too informally clothed)

tuxedoed (dressed in a tuxedo)

turned out (dressed well or smartly)

togged (dressed especially in smart clothes)

surpliced (wearing a surplice)

suited (outfitted or supplied with clothing)

lobster-backed; red-coated (used of British soldiers during the American Revolutionary War because of their red coats)

petticoated (wearing or furnished with a petticoat)

overdressed (dressed too elaborately)

heavy-coated (wearing a heavy coat)

habited (dressed in a habit)

gowned (wearing a gown)

dolled up; dressed; dressed-up; dressed to kill; dressed to the nines; spiffed up; spruced up; togged up (dressed in fancy or formal clothing)

dighted (dressed or adorned (as for battle))

cowled (having the head enclosed in a cowl or hood)

costumed (dressed in clothing characteristic of a period, country, or class)

coated (having or dressed in a coat)

cassocked (dressed in a cassock)

caparisoned (clothed in finery (especially a horse in ornamental trappings))

bundled-up (dressed warmly)

breeched; pantalooned; trousered (dressed in trousers)

arrayed; panoplied (in ceremonial attire and paraphernalia)

Also:

adorned; decorated (provided with something intended to increase its beauty or distinction)

Antonym:

unclothed (not wearing clothing)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Covered with or as if with clothes or a wrap or cloak

Synonyms:

cloaked; clothed; draped; mantled; wrapped

Context example:

cloud-wrapped peaks

Similar:

covered (overlaid or spread or topped with or enclosed within something; sometimes used as a combining form)

 Context examples 

His recollection of Harriet, and the words which clothed it, the “beautiful little friend,” suggested to her the idea of Harriet's succeeding her in his affections.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

He was clothed all in green, from his head to his feet, and even his skin was of a greenish tint.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

He was fully clothed, though there were signs that his dressing had been done in a hurry.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

All this time Ambrose had been standing like a dark-clothed, bronze-faced image by the door, with the big silver-bound box under his arm.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He was fully clothed, though his shirt was ripped open in front.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

A fierce cry seemed to give the lie to her favourable report: the clothed hyena rose up, and stood tall on its hind-feet.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Then they recognized his voice and waited, and when he came up to them suddenly his bearskin fell off, and he stood there a handsome man, clothed all in gold.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Here passed the round-faced burgher, swollen with prosperity, his sweeping dark-clothed gaberdine, flat velvet cap, broad leather belt and dangling pouch all speaking of comfort and of wealth.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Afterwards, when familiarised with the visions of enjoyment so suddenly opened, she could speak more largely to William and Edmund of what she felt; but still there were emotions of tenderness that could not be clothed in words.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

It was worse when it began to be clothed upon with detestable attributes; and out of the shifting, insubstantial mists that had so long baffled his eye, there leaped up the sudden, definite presentment of a fiend.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)