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dressed to the nines

/nahyn/US // naɪn //UK // (naɪn) //

衣冠楚楚,盛装出席,衣冠楚楚的,盛装打扮

Related Words

nonagon九边形,九角形,九方,九角ninth第九次,第九届,第九个,第九届会议ennead诰日,诰敕,诰命,诰封

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a cardinal number, eight plus one.
    • : a symbol for this number, as 9 or IX.
    • : a set of this many persons or things.
    • : a baseball team.
    • : a playing card with nine pips.
    • : the Nine, the Muses.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : amounting to nine in number.

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.dressed in fancy clothing
Synonyms
dolled up打扮得漂漂亮亮,打扮得漂漂亮亮的,打扮一新的,靓丽dressed to advantage衣着得体,衣冠楚楚,衣锦还乡,衣着整齐dressed to kill穿衣杀人,穿戴整齐以利于杀戮,穿戴整齐以利杀敌,穿戴整齐以备杀戮dressed to the teeth衣冠楚楚,严阵以待,严丝合缝dressed-up衣冠楚楚,盛装,穿着整齐的,盛装打扮gussied up梳妆打扮,梳洗打扮,打扮一新,打扮一新的in full dress身着盛装,盛装出席,身着盛装的,盛装打扮in full feather羽毛丰满,羽毛饱满,羽毛丰满的,羽毛饱满的soignéespiffed up修整,修整过的,修饰,修整后spruced up焕然一新,焕然一新的,修整过的,修整了well-dressed衣着整齐,衣着整齐的,衣着得体,衣冠楚楚

Examples

  • This was nine fewer than what he needed just two years ago when 426 members of the House voted.

  • The Via Dolorosa ends at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, and is marked by nine stations of the cross.

  • Denied parole nine straight times, he insists he is innocent of the crime for which he was convicted.

  • If you answered nine or more, you may have won a SONY Betamax and an eight-track operating system.

  • Nine new Republican senators will swear their oaths of office.

  • In nine days he returned, bringing us the thanks of congress, and fresh orders.

  • Dinner occurred in the middle of the day, and about nine in the evening was an informal but copious supper.

  • He had been wont to do this on other occasions, because the enemy with nine ships was within sight of the fort.

  • His holy book says: There is more joy over one sinner that repenteth than over ninety and nine just men.

  • A small boy of three years and nine months on receiving from his nurse the familiar order, "Come here!"

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