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Necktie vs Necktied - What's the difference?

necktie | necktied |

As a noun necktie

is a strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front. See also bowtie.

As an adjective necktied is

wearing a necktie.

necktie

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front. See also bowtie.

    • Derived terms

    * Colombian necktie * necktie party

    See also

    * (wikipedia "necktie")

    necktied

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Wearing a necktie.
  • *{{quote-news, year=1895, date=July 1, author=Robert Grant, title=The Art Of Living: The Summer Problem, work=Scribner's Magazine citation
    • , passage=One can see him any afternoon driving augustly on Bellevue Avenue or along the ocean drive, well gloved, well shod, and brilliantly necktied , in his landau
  • *{{quote-news, year=1994, date=April 5, author=Russell Baker, title=Observer; Gone With America, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Charles Kuralt is not so gone as those crowds of suited, necktied men watching baseball in snap-brim fedoras are gone, but he is gone nonetheless.}}