Word Meanings - GARB - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Clothing in general. The whole dress or suit of clothes worn by any person, especially when indicating rank or office; as, the garb of a clergyman or a judge. Costume; fashion; as, the garb of a gentleman in the 16th century. 2. External

Additional info about word: GARB

Clothing in general. The whole dress or suit of clothes worn by any person, especially when indicating rank or office; as, the garb of a clergyman or a judge. Costume; fashion; as, the garb of a gentleman in the 16th century. 2. External appearance, as expressive of the feelings or character; looks; fashion or manner, as of speech. You thought, because he could not speak English in the native garb, he could not therefore handle an English cudgel. Shak.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of GARB)

• Attire
• Robes
• garments
• clothing
• vestments
• habiliment
• habit
• raiment
• clothes
• garb
• apparel
• accoutrement
• livery
• uniform
• costume
• Dress
• Garniture
• preparation
• arrangement
• habiliments
• accoutrements
• attire
• array
• investiture
• Guise
• Aspect
• semblance
• plea
• demeanor
• dress
• appearance
• fashion
• mien
• manner
• Livery
• Uniform
• badge
• dependence
• servitude
• retainership
• retinue
• subservience
• Pretence
• Excuse
• pretext
• fabrication
• simulation
• cloak
• mask
• color
• show
• assumption
• make believe
• outside show
• pretension

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of GARB)

• Disarray
• disarrange
• confuse
• jumble
• divest
• denude
• strip

Related words: (words related to GARB)

• COLORMAN
  A vender of paints, etc. Simmonds.
• EXCUSEMENT
  Excuse. Gower.
• BADGELESS
  Having no badge. Bp. Hall.
• DIVESTITURE
  The act of stripping, or depriving; the state of being divested; the deprivation, or surrender, of possession of property, rights, etc.
• DIVESTMENT
  The act of divesting.
• STRIPPING
  The last milk drawn from a cow at a milking. (more info) 1. The act of one who strips. The mutual bows and courtesies . . . are remants of the original prostrations and strippings of the captive. H. Spencer. Never were cows that required
• HABITURE
  Habitude.
• BADGE
  A carved ornament on the stern of a vessel, containing a window or the representation of one. (more info) AS. beág, beáh, bracelet, collar, crown, OS b in comp., AS. b to bow, 1. A distinctive mark, token, sign, or cognizance, worn on the person;
• BADGERING
  1. The act of one who badgers. 2. The practice of buying wheat and other kinds of food in one place and selling them in another for a profit.
• JUMBLEMENT
  Confused mixture.
• UNIFORMISM
  The doctrine of uniformity in the geological history of the earth; -- in part equivalent to uniformitarianism, but also used, more broadly, as opposed to catastrophism.
• SUBSERVIENCE; SUBSERVIENCY
  The quality or state of being subservient; instrumental fitness or use; hence, willingness to serve another's purposes; in a derogatory sense, servility. The body wherein appears much fitness, use, and subserviency to infinite functions. Bentley.
• FASHION-MONGERING
  Behaving like a fashion-monger. Shak.
• FASHIONED
  Having a certain style or fashion; as old-fashioned; new- fashioned.
• FASHION-MONGER
  One who studies the fashions; a fop; a dandy. Marston.
• HABITED
  1. Clothed; arrayed; dressed; as, he was habited like a shepherd. 2. Fixed by habit; accustomed. So habited he was in sobriety. Fuller. 3. Inhabited. Another world, which is habited by the ghosts of men and women. Addison.
• EXCUSE
  1. To free from accusation, or the imputation of fault or blame; to clear from guilt; to release from a charge; to justify by extenuating a fault; to exculpate; to absolve; to acquit. A man's persuasion that a thing is duty, will not excuse him
• UNIFORMAL
  Uniform. Herrick.
• BADGER
  An itinerant licensed dealer in commodities used for food; a hawker; a huckster; -- formerly applied especially to one who bought grain in one place and sold it in another.
• FASHIONABLY
  In a fashionable manner.
• UNDRESS
  To take the dressing, or covering, from; as, to undress a wound. (more info) 1. To divest of clothes; to strip. 2. To divest of ornaments to disrobe.
• SAILCLOTH
  Duck or canvas used in making sails.
• DEMANDRESS
  A woman who demands.
• INHABITATE
  To inhabit.
• CONCOLOR
  Of the same color; of uniform color. "Concolor animals." Sir T. Browne.
• UNATTIRE
  To divest of attire; to undress.
• BEDCLOTHES
  Blankets, sheets, coverlets, etc., for a bed. Shak.
• COHABITER
  A cohabitant. Hobbes.
• UNSTRIPED
  Without marks or striations; nonstriated; as, unstriped muscle fibers. (more info) 1. Not striped.
• INHABITATIVENESS
  A tendency or propensity to permanent residence in a place or abode; love of home and country.
• IMPREPARATION
  Want of preparation. Hooker.
• OFFENDRESS
  A woman who offends. Shak.