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miniskirt

miniskirt

19 1.6
A very short skirt worn above the knees
  • noun
  • /ˈmɪnɪˌskɜrt/
translation icon : minifalda
  • Today they are wearing miniskirts and leather jackets in Shanghai.
  • wear miniskirts
  • leather miniskirt
  • black miniskirt

I think girls can style miniskirts to look really cute.

Examples

  • The neighbors said that all she wore was a silver miniskirt and one red shoe.

    Fiction book (2000)
  • She had really long hair and a short miniskirt.

  • I think girls can style miniskirts to look really cute.

  • ...little miniskirt, walking through the quad.

  • Miranda wanted to pull her miniskirt down to make it longer.

    Fiction book (1995)
  • Everything's easier in a miniskirt.

  • Mr. Buckley, do you think miniskirts are in good taste?

  • She's wearing a black leather miniskirt that I didn't know she owned.

    Fiction book (1994)
  • I remembered that we girls wore miniskirts, and bitter cold stung our thighs.

    Fiction book (1999)
  • She wore a bright yellow miniskirt that caught everyone's attention at the party.

Synonyms

mini
vsminiskirt
  • Informal
59 3.0

A very short skirt ending well above the knees

is the longer compound term for the same garment

Antonyms

2 2.6

A long, wide skirt gathered at the waist that spreads out

1 3.9

A long skirt that reaches the ankles or lower calf

How Short

miniskirt
19 1.6
knee-length
3 2.9
midi
1 4.6
maxiskirt
1 3.9

Surface Forms

miniskirt singular
miniskirts plural

Morphology

miniskirt = skirt (transparent) = mini + skirt + mini

The word 'miniskirt' is transparently built from 'mini' and 'skirt', indicating a smaller version of a skirt.

Etymology

Miniskirt comes from the prefix mini- meaning 'small' and the everyday word skirt, so it literally means a 'small skirt'. That's why a miniskirt is a very short skirt whose bottom is well above the knees and became a symbol of youth fashion in the 1960s.