attire vs dress

attire and dress both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
attire	Yes	No	Yes	No
dress	Yes	Yes	Yes	No

As nouns, attire and dress are synonyms defined as:

attire and dress: clothing of a distinctive style or for a particular occasion

Other synonyms of attire include garb.

As verbs, dress is a hypernym of attire; that is, dress is a word with a broader meaning than attire:

attire: put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive
dress: put on clothes

Other hypernyms of attire include get dressed.

As verbs, dress is a hyponym of attire; that is, dress is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than attire:

attire: put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive
dress: dress or groom with elaborate care

Other hyponyms of attire include plume, preen, primp, prank, tart up, enrobe, bedizen, dizen.

attire (noun)	dress (noun)
clothing of a distinctive style or for a particular occasion	a one-piece garment for a woman; has skirt and bodice
	clothing of a distinctive style or for a particular occasion
	clothing in general

attire (adjective)	dress (adjective)
	(of an occasion) requiring formal clothes
	suitable for formal occasions

attire (verb)	dress (verb)
put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive	put on clothes
	provide with clothes or put clothes on
	apply a bandage or medication to
	arrange attractively
	dress or groom with elaborate care
	give a neat appearance to
	dress in a certain manner
	kill and prepare for market or consumption
	convert into leather
	put a dressing on
	put a finish on
	cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
	provide with decoration
	cut down rough-hewn (lumber) to standard thickness and width
	decorate (food), as with parsley or other ornamental foods
	arrange in ranks