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Clothes vs Clothed - What's the difference?

clothes | clothed |

As verbs the difference between clothes and clothed

is that clothes is third-person singular of clothe while clothed is past tense of clothe.

As a noun clothes

is items of clothing; apparel.

As an adjective clothed is

covered with a cloth.

clothes

English

Etymology 1

(etyl)

Noun

(head)
  • (plural only) Items of clothing; apparel.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=6 citation , passage=Even in an era when individuality in dress is a cult, his clothes were noticeable. He was wearing a hard hat of the low round kind favoured by hunting men, and with it a black duffle-coat lined with white.}}
  • (obsolete) .
  • The covering of a bed; bedclothes.
  • * Prior
    • She turned each way her frighted head, / Then sunk it deep beneath the clothes .
    Derived terms
    (terms derived from "clothes") * bedclothes * clotheshorse * clothesline * clothes moth * clothes-peg * clothes peg * clothespin * clotehspress * swaddling clothes * swathing clothes

    See also

    * clothing * gear * threads

    Etymology 2

    Verb

    (head)
  • (clothe)
    • English pluralia tantum 1000 English basic words

    clothed

    English

    Etymology 1

    Verb

    (head)
  • (clothe)

    • Etymology 2

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Covered with a cloth.
    • a white-clothed table