| Main Entry: | spruce |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | stylish, neat |
Synonyms: |
classy, clean, dainty, dapper, elegant, prim, smart, tidy, trim, well-groomed |
| Notes: | pine, fir, and spruce are quite different from each other - though they are all conifers; pine has clusters of long needle-shaped leaves and spruce is a type of fir; the only scientific difference between a spruce and a fir is that spruces have rectangular needles while firs have flat needle-shaped leaves |
Antonyms: |
unkempt, unstylish, untidy |
| Main Entry: | crisp |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | smart, snappy in appearance |
Synonyms: |
clean-cut, neat, orderly, spruce, tidy, well-groomed, well-pressed |
Antonyms: |
ruffled, rumpled |
| Main Entry: | dapper |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | well-groomed, neat |
Synonyms: |
bandbox, brisk, chic, chichi, classy, clean, dainty, dashing, doggy, dressed to kill, dressed to nines, jaunty, natty, nice, nifty, nimble, nobby, posh, prim, rakish, ritzy, sassy, sharp, showy, smart, snazzy, snug, spiff, spiffy, spruce, spry, stylish, swank, swanky, swell, trim, turned out, well turned out |
Antonyms: |
dirty, dishevelled, ruffled, rumpled, scruffy, shabby, sloppy, tousled, ungroomed, wrinkled |
| Main Entry: | handsome |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | attractive |
Synonyms: |
admirable, aristocratic, athletic, august, beautiful, becoming, clean-cut, comely, dapper, elegant, fair, fashionable, fine, good-looking, graceful, impressive, lovely, majestic, noble, personable, pulchritudinous, robust, sharp, smart, smooth, spruce, stately, strong, stylish, suave, virile, well-dressed, well-proportioned |
Antonyms: |
homely, ugly, unattractive |
| Main Entry: | immaculate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very clean; unspoiled |
Synonyms: |
bright, clean, errorless, exquisite, faultless, flawless, impeccable, irreproachable, neat, pure, snowy, spick-and-span, spotless, spruce, stainless, taintless, trim, unexceptionable, unsoiled, unsullied |
Antonyms: |
dirty, filthy, foul, tainted, unclean, unsterile |
| Main Entry: | jaunty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | lively |
Synonyms: |
airy, animated, bold, brash, breezy, buoyant, carefree, careless, cocky, dapper, dashing, debonair, devil-may-care, devilish, easy, exhilarated, flip*, flippant, forward, free, fresh, frisky, frolicsome, gamesome, gay, high-spirited, hilarious, impetuous, impish, impudent, jocose, joking, jolly, jovial, light, natty, nervy, perky, playful, prankish, provocative, reckless, rollicking, self-confident, showy, smart, sportive, sporty, sprightly, spruce, swaggering, trim, venturesome, vivacious |
Antonyms: |
depressed, lethargic, lifeless |
| Main Entry: | natty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dapper |
Synonyms: |
chic, chichi, classy, clean, dainty, dashing, dressed to kill, dressed to the nines, elegant, fashionable, neat, prim, sharp, slick, smart, snazzy, spiffy, spruce, spruced up, stylish, swanky, trim, well-groomed |
| Main Entry: | neat |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | arranged well, uncluttered |
Synonyms: |
accurate, apple-pie order, chic*, correct, dainty, dapper, elegant, exact, fastidious, finical, finicky, immaculate, in good order, in good shape, methodical, natty, neat as a pin, nice, orderly, precise, prim, proper, regular, shipshape, sleek, slick, smart, spick-and-span, spotless, spruce, systematic, tidy, trim, well-groomed, well-kept |
Antonyms: |
disorderly, messed up, sloppy, slovenly, unkempt |
| Main Entry: | nifty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | marvelous |
Synonyms: |
chic, clever, cool*, dandy, enjoyable, excellent, groovy*, keen, neat, peachy*, pleasing, quick, sharp, smart, spruce, stylish, super, swell, terrific |
Antonyms: |
bad, displeasing, unhandy, unpleasant |
| Main Entry: | prim |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | particular, fussy |
Synonyms: |
Victorian, blue-nose, ceremonial, ceremonious, choosy, cleanly, conventional, correct, dapper*, decorous, demure, fastidious, formal, genteel, good, goody-goody, nice, nit-picking, orderly, overmodest, polite, precise, priggish, prissy, proper, prudish, puritanical, rigid, shipshape, spic-and-span, spruce, stickling, stiff, straight, strait-laced, stuffy, tidy, uncluttered, upright, well-groomed, wooden |
Antonyms: |
informal, rumpled |