Tidy
['taɪdɪ] or ['taɪdi]
Definition
(noun.) receptacle that holds odds and ends (as sewing materials).
(verb.) put (things or places) in order; 'Tidy up your room!'.
(adj.) marked by order and cleanliness in appearance or habits; 'a tidy person'; 'a tidy house'; 'a tidy mind' .
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Definition
(n.) The wren; -- called also tiddy.
(superl.) Being in proper time; timely; seasonable; favorable; as, tidy weather.
(superl.) Arranged in good order; orderly; appropriate; neat; kept in proper and becoming neatness, or habitually keeping things so; as, a tidy lass; their dress is tidy; the apartments are well furnished and tidy.
(n.) A cover, often of tatting, drawn work, or other ornamental work, for the back of a chair, the arms of a sofa, or the like.
(n.) A child's pinafore.
(v. t.) To put in proper order; to make neat; as, to tidy a room; to tidy one's dress.
(v. i.) To make things tidy.
Editor: Rosanne
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Clean, cleanly, neat, spruce.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Neat, orderly, spruce, clean, cleanly, tight
ANT:Disorderly, untidy, slovenly
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Definition
adj. neat: in good order: fairly large: (coll.) comfortable.—n. a cover for chairs &c.: a child's pinafore.—v.t. to make neat: to put in good order:—pa.t. and pa.p. tī′died.—adv. Tī′dily in a tidy manner.—n. Ti′diness state or quality of being tidy: neatness.—Tid′ivate (coll.) (see Titivate).
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Examples
- Being dressed, I went down; not travel-worn and exhausted, but tidy and refreshed. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- There is the parsonage: a tidy-looking house, and I understand the clergyman and his wife are very decent people. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- This morning, as the man was buried and the investigation over--so far as this room is concerned--we thought we could tidy up a bit. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- The plate shows all gradations of intensity--the tidy is dark, the black tie is light. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The tidy basket, with the bit of work she left unfinished when the needle grew 'so heavy', was still on its accustomed shelf. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- I forgot to tell you that Mrs. Marker, the housekeeper, had been in there tidying not very long before--about a quarter of an hour, she says. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Since I first knew you, I have tidied and tidied over and over again, but it's useless. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- O, she's better, said Ruth; I was in, this morning; made the bed, tidied up the house. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- We might be tidier, mightn't we, sir? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
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