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Dressed To The Nines

Definition: Dressed To The Nines

Dressed To The Nines

Adjective

1. Dressed in fancy or formal clothing.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Dressed To The Nines

Synonyms: dolled up (adj), dressed to kill(p) (adj), dressed to the nines(p) (adj), dressed(p) (adj), dressed-up (adj), spiffed up (adj), spruced up (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Dressed To The Nines

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Ornament

In full dress; (fashion); dressed to kill, dressed to the nines, dressed to advantage; in Sunday best, en grand tenue, en grande toilette; in best bib and tucker, endimanche.

Ostentation

Dressed to kill, dressed to the nines, decjed out, all decked out, en granite tenue, in best bib and tucker, in Sunday best, endimanch_, chic.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Anagrams: Dressed To The Nines

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-d-e-e-e-e-h-i-n-n-o-r-s-s-s-t-t"

-5 letters: entirenesses, hiddennesses, hornednesses, rottennesses, tendernesses, thorninesses, trendinesses.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Dressed To The Nines


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 72 65 73 73 65 64      54 6F      54 68 65      4E 69 6E 65 73

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

            

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01110010 01100101 01110011 01110011 01100101 01100100 00100000 01010100 01101111 00100000 01010100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01001110 01101001 01101110 01100101 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#114 &#101 &#115 &#115 &#101 &#100 &#32 &#84 &#111 &#32 &#84 &#104 &#101 &#32 &#78 &#105 &#110 &#101 &#115

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0072 0065 0073 0073 0065 0064      0054 006F      0054 0068 0065      004E 0069 006E 0065 0073

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3884718585717025481254747124875807185

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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