1. Wearing or provided with clothing; sometimes used in combination
   "nurses clad in white"; "white-clad nurses";
   - clothed
    
2. Having an outer covering especially of thin metal
   "steel-clad"; "armour-clad"

1. Cover or encase something with a layer of another material
   "The building was clad with insulation panels"

1. Provide with clothes or put clothes on
   "Parents must feed and clothe their child";
   - dress, enclothe [rare], garb, raiment [archaic], tog [informal], garment, habilitate [archaic], fit out, apparel [archaic]
    
2. Furnish with power or authority; of kings or emperors
   "The new monarch was clothed with the crown jewels during the coronation ceremony";
   - invest, adorn
    
3. Cover as if with clothing
   "the mountain was clothed in tropical trees";
   - cloak, drape, robe

Derived forms: clad, cladding, clads

See also: adorned, appareled [N. Amer], apparelled [Brit, Cdn], arrayed, attired, breeched, bundled-up, caparisoned, cassocked, coated, costumed, cowled, decorated, dighted [archaic], dolled up [informal], dressed, dressed to kill [informal], dressed to the nines [informal], dressed-up, garbed, garmented, gowned, habilimented [archaic], habited, heavy-coated, lobster-backed, overdressed, panoplied, pantalooned, petticoated, red-coated, robed, sheathed, spiffed up [N. Amer, informal], spruced up, suited, surpliced, togged, togged up [informal], trousered, turned out, tuxedoed [N. Amer], underdressed, uniformed, vestmented

Type of: change state, cover, equip, fit, fit out, outfit, spread over, turn

Antonym: unclothed

Encyclopedia: Clad