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trousered

trousered

5.2
Wearing trousers instead of a dress or skirt
  • adjective
  • UK
translation icon : vestido con pantalones
  • My ragged trousered mate outside with the sawn-off is waiting to blow your balls off if you as much as show your face out there without my say so.
  • trousered legs

Examples

  • She preferred to wear trousered outfits instead of skirts for comfort.

  • The house was filled with books such as 'The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists' and the works of D. H. Lawrence (he was born 4 miles away in Eastwood).

    Blog text (28)
  • Drake was a trousered ape, Private, a disgrace to his uniform and his rank.

  • This, the DDP's files reveal, was what the striped-trousered ones refused to tolerate.

    Academic text (2010)
  • The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist

    Blog text (9)
  • Leaning back, one trousered leg draped easily over the other, Cerny picked a pouch of tobacco off the table, opened the sumptuous black foil, and began to stuff his pipe.

    Fiction book (1997)
  • No single lifelike vulva on display surrounded by a group of penises dressed in codpieces or jockstraps; no naked fleshy woman surrounded by jacketed, trousered, necktied men.

    Academic text (2007)
  • At the formal dinner, he was well-dressed in a suit and trousered attire.

  • For the outdoor event, everyone arrived trousered and ready for the activities.

Synonyms

betrousered
vstrousered
  • Archaic
9.9

Wearing trousers like pants

is the same meaning but uses a different word form
pantalooned
vstrousered
  • Archaic
9.1

Wearing trousers or long fitted pants

is the same meaning but uses an alternate word form
breeched
vstrousered
  • Archaic
9.9

Dressed in trousers instead of children's clothes to show growing up

refers broadly to wearing trousers without the child or transition idea

Antonyms

1 7.0

Being without pants

Surface Forms

trousered positive

Morphology

trousered = trouser (transparent) = trouser + ed

Formed from 'trouser' + adjectival '-ed' meaning 'wearing or furnished with trousers', which is directly inferable by learners.

Etymology

The word trousered comes from the common noun trouser and the ending -ed that means 'wearing', so trousered simply means 'wearing trousers'.