Dress up meaning
Dress up is a phrasal verb with 2 meanings. One of them is to wear formal clothing for a special event.
- Past simple
- dressed up
- Past participle
- dressed up
- -ing form
- dressing up
What dress up means
wear formal clothesB1
To wear formal clothing for a special event
You do not need to dress up for the dinner.
1 more meaning of dress up is in the Retite app, with an example and a translation into your language.
More meanings in the appSimilar phrasal verbs
With up: wake up, pick up, grow up, line up, make up, set up, put up, go up, bring up, mess up.
Common questions
What does dress up mean?
It has 2 meanings. One of them is to wear formal clothing for a special event. The other one, with an example and a translation into your language, is in the Retite app.
What is the past tense of dress up?
Dressed up, which is also its past participle.
Meanings and examples are written by Retite. The meanings follow Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0). Levels are based on the CEFR-J Wordlist and set by Retite.
