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What (who) is overdressed - definition
overdressed
ALBUM BY CAEDMON'S CALL
If you say that someone is overdressed, you are criticizing them for wearing clothes that are not appropriate for the occasion because they are too formal or too smart.
ADJ
dressed
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Dressed; Dressings; Dressing (disambiguation); Dreſſing; Dressing (food)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
If you are dressed, you are wearing clothes rather than being naked or wearing your night clothes. If you get dressed, you put on your clothes.
He was fully dressed, including shoes...
He went into his bedroom to get dressed.
ADJ: usu v-link ADJ
2.
If you are dressed in a particular way, you are wearing clothes of a particular colour or kind.
...a tall thin woman dressed in black.
ADJ: v-link ADJ in/as n, adv ADJ
see also well-dressed
Dressed
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Dressed; Dressings; Dressing (disambiguation); Dreſſing; Dressing (food)
·Impf & ·p.p. of Dress.
Examples of use of overdressed
1. But bra, shorts and ballet slippers almost count as overdressed for Amy Winehouse these days.
2. However, fellow sun–seeker Ifans looked somewhat more overdressed in white trousers and a t–shirt.
3. Ifans looked somewhat more overdressed in white trousers and a t–shirt.
4. The scene repeats itself every weekday – same mothers, same overdressed children – as part of Sr.
5. Frankly, with their day–glo vests and black jumpsuits, they looked a bit overdressed.