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单词 dolled up
释义

doll up

verb

dolled up; dolling up; dolls up

transitive verb

1
: to dress elegantly or extravagantly
2
: to make more attractive (as by decorating)

intransitive verb

: to get dolled up

Synonyms

  • adorn
  • array
  • beautify
  • bedeck
  • bedizen
  • blazon
  • caparison
  • deck
  • decorate
  • do
  • do up
  • drape
  • dress
  • embellish
  • emblaze
  • emboss
  • enrich
  • fancify
  • fancy up
  • festoon
  • garnish
  • glitz (up)
  • grace
  • gussy up
  • ornament
  • pretty (up)
  • trim
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Example Sentences

if you were to doll up those Shaker-style rooms, you'd ruin their simple elegance got all dolled up for the party
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Word History

First Known Use

1906, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1

dolled up 1 of 2

adjective

as in a la mode

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • a la mode
  • dressy
  • elegant
  • spruce
  • natty
  • formal
  • à la mode
  • dapper
  • in
  • chic
  • stylish
  • smart
  • modish
  • fashionable
  • tidy
  • orderly
  • spiffed-up
  • snappy
  • sharp
  • careful
  • meticulous
  • groomed
  • fastidious
  • pristine
  • fussy
  • combed
  • spotless
  • clean
  • immaculate
  • squeaky-clean

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • sloppy
  • disheveled
  • unkempt
  • dishevelled
  • messy
  • slovenly
  • wrinkled
  • dirty
  • shabby
  • rumpled
  • frowsy
  • soiled
  • stained
  • filthy
  • untidy
  • foul
  • grubby
  • spotted
  • uncombed
  • mussed
  • sleazy
  • dingy
  • scruffy
  • frowzy
  • grimy
  • nasty
  • unclean
  • unfashionable
  • scroungy
  • dowdy
  • scuzzy
  • inelegant
  • sullied
  • scrubby
  • unstylish
  • smirched
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dolled up

2 of 2

verb

past tense of doll up
1
as in decorated
to make more attractive by adding something that is beautiful or becoming if you were to doll up those Shaker-style rooms, you'd ruin their simple elegance

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • decorated
  • adorned
  • draped
  • gussied up
  • did up
  • dressed
  • ornamented
  • trimmed
  • decked
  • bedizened
  • painted
  • fancied up
  • enriched
  • embossed
  • graced
  • festooned
  • prettied (up)
  • glitzed (up)
  • embellished
  • arrayed
  • beautified
  • bedecked
  • caparisoned
  • dressed up
  • garnished
  • did
  • blazoned
  • emblazed
  • fancified
  • trapped
  • tricked (out)
  • spruced (up)
  • embroidered
  • diamonded
  • brightened
  • freshened
  • accessorized
  • furbelowed
  • filigreed
  • gilt
  • braided
  • impearled
  • gilded
  • figured
  • chased
  • fringed
  • ribboned
  • garlanded
  • jeweled
  • hung
  • wreathed
  • appliquéd
  • frilled
  • bossed
  • laced
  • smartened
  • flounced
  • feathered
  • swagged
  • pearled
  • filleted
  • gemmed
  • redecorated
  • redid
  • hanged
  • jewelled

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • marred
  • simplified
  • disfigured
  • spoilt
  • spoiled
  • defaced
  • blemished
  • scarred
  • stripped
  • displayed
  • streamlined
  • exposed
  • denuded
  • bared
  • divested
  • revealed
  • stript
  • uncovered
  • dismantled
  • uglified
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2
as in dressed
to put on one's best or formal clothes got all dolled up for the party

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • dressed
  • dressed up
  • clad
  • prinked
  • costumed
  • clothed
  • smartened (up)
  • suited
  • decked
  • duded (up)
  • primped
  • bedizened
  • attired
  • preened
  • garmented
  • accessorized
  • togged (out or up)
  • robed
  • garbed
  • rigged (out)
  • arrayed
  • bedecked
  • caparisoned
  • appareled
  • invested
  • apparelled
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