Dapper is spruce with the suggestion of smallness and slightness natty, a diminutive of neat, suggests minute elegance, with a tendency toward the exquisite as, a dapper little fellow in a natty business suit.Ĭlean, cleanly, dapper, natty, neat, nice, orderly, prim, spruce, trimĭirty, disorderly, dowdy, negligent, rough, rude, slouchy, slovenly, soiled, uncared for, unkempt, untidy Prim applies to a precise, formal, affected nicety. Trim denotes a certain shapely and elegant firmness, often with suppleness and grace as, a trim suit a trim figure. Spruce is applied to the show and affectation of neatness with a touch of smartness, and is always a term of mild contempt as, a spruce serving man. Nice is stronger than neat, implying value and beauty a cheap, coarse dress may be perfectly neat, but would not be termed nice. A clean cut has no ragged edges a neat stroke just does what is intended. Neat refers to that which is clean and tidy with nothing superfluous, conspicuous, or showy, as when we speak of plain but neat attire the same idea of freedom from the superfluous appears in the phrases "a neat speech," "a neat turn," "a neat reply," etc. Tidy denotes that which conforms to propriety in general an unlaced shoe may be perfectly clean, but is not tidy. Things are orderly when in due relation to other things a room or desk is orderly when every article is in place a person is orderly who habitually keeps things so.
#Another word for tidy up free#
That which is clean is simply free from soil or defilement of any kind.
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