WELL-DRESSED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does well-dressed mean? 

• WELL-DRESSED (adjective)
  The adjective WELL-DRESSED has 1 sense:

1. having tasteful clothing and being scrupulously neat

  Familiarity information: WELL-DRESSED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WELL-DRESSED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having tasteful clothing and being scrupulously neat

Synonyms:

well-dressed; well-groomed

Similar:

groomed (neat and smart in appearance; well cared for)

 Context examples 

A well-dressed, elderly servant opened the door.

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

Hannah had been cold and stiff, indeed, at the first: latterly she had begun to relent a little; and when she saw me come in tidy and well-dressed, she even smiled.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He pointed to a smallish, dark, well-dressed man who was bustling along the other side of the road.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I glanced round and had a side view of a tall and well-dressed young man in a long, brown travelling coat and a black felt hat.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There was some sympathetic laughter on his entrance among the front benches of well-dressed spectators, as though the demonstration of the students in this instance was not unwelcome to them.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He glanced about him at the well-bred, well-dressed men and women, and breathed into his lungs the atmosphere of culture and refinement, and at the same moment the ghost of his early youth, in stiff- rim and square-cut, with swagger and toughness, stalked across the room.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

They looked just the same: both well-dressed, with veils and parasols like other girls; but I afterwards found that I had been giving all my attention to the youngest, who was not out, and had most excessively offended the eldest.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

He was the keeper of a low den in which I used to lodge in Swandam Lane, where I could every morning emerge as a squalid beggar and in the evenings transform myself into a well-dressed man about town.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I felt it was what was to be expected, and what could not be helped: an ordinary beggar is frequently an object of suspicion; a well-dressed beggar inevitably so.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He opened a door as he spoke, and looking in we saw a score of well-dressed men, some of whose faces had become familiar to me during my short West End career, seated round a table upon which stood a steaming soup-tureen filled with punch.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)