attire
Plural: attires
Noun
- clothing of a distinctive style or for a particular occasion
- "formal attire"
- One's dress; what one wears; one's clothes.
- The single horn of a goat, deer or stag.
Verb
Verb Forms: attired, attiring, atires
- To be dressed in clothes of a specified kind.
- put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive
- To clothe or adorn.
Examples
- He stood there, attired in his best clothes, waiting for applause.
- He was wearing his formal attire.
- She needs to attire her vowels with consonants to form a valid word.
- We will attire him in fine clothing so he can make a good impression.
Origin / Etymology
The verb is from Middle English atyren, atiren, from Old French atirier (“to equip”), from a- + tire (“rank”), akin to German Zier (“ornament”) and Old Norse tírr (“glory, renown”).
The noun is from Middle English atir, from the verb.
Synonyms
deck out, deck up, dress, dress up, fancy up, fig out, fig up, garb, get up, gussy up, overdress, prink, rig out, tog out, tog up, trick out, trick up, clothe, dight, don
Antonyms
dress down, underdress
Scrabble Score: 6
attire: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordattire: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
attire: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary