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underdress definitions

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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: dress without sufficient warmth; "She was underdressed for the hiking trip and suffered hypothermia" [ant: overclothe, overdress]
2: dress informally and casually; "On Fridays, employees can underdress" [syn: dress down, underdress] [ant: attire, deck out, deck up, dress up, fancy up, fig out, fig up, get up, gussy up, overdress, prink, rig out, tog out, tog up, trick out, trick up]

Merriam Webster's

Date: circa 1784 intransitive verb to dress in overly or inappropriately simple or informal clothing transitive verb to dress (as oneself) more simply or informally than is appropriate

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. & intr. dress too plainly or too lightly.