done up

Made fancy, styled

Done up describes something that has been fastened, decorated, or prepared with care.

A package is done up with ribbon.

A room is done up in Victorian style.

A person who is all done up is dressed elaborately or wearing full makeup.

The phrase can also mean exhausted: After the hike, I was completely done up.

adorned

decorated

Made more visually appealing

gussied · fancied · bedecked · decked · dressed · glamorized · prettified · spruced · trimmed · arrayed

fastened

buttoned

Secured with disc fasteners

secured · clasped · buckled · snapped · hooked · closed · latched · strapped · belted · knotted

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Opposites
adornment/appearance

done updressed down

Reprimanded or wore casual

plain · underdressed · unkempt · disheveled · unadorned

fastening/closure

done upundone

Not fastened or completed

unfastened · unbuttoned · unzipped · open · untied

renovation/condition

done uprun-down

Deteriorated from neglect

dilapidated · neglected · shabby · decrepit · unrenovated

Family

up, do, done, doing, undone, does, overdone, redone, do up

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Everyday, not technical · Rated G