Nifty

Definition: Nifty

Nifty

Adjective

1. (informal) very good; "a bully pulpit"; "a neat sports car"; "had a great time at the party"; "you look simply smashing".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "nifty" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1917. (references)

Synonyms: Nifty

It's Nifty to Be Thrifty (1944)

The Nifty Nineties (1941)

Nifty Nurses (1934)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• 50 Nifty Cartoon Characters to Draw (reference)

• Do Not Go Naked into Your Next Presentation: Nifty, Little Nuggets to Quiet the Nerves and Please the Crowd (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Drew's Famous Nifty at 50 - Music for Your Party (reference)

• Nifty Cat (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Civilization builders. As special compliment to the Col., dry sleuths stage nifty exhibition of ... Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Expression using "nifty": nifty piece of work. Additional references.

Beginning with "nifty": nifty-serve.

Albanian

shik (elegant, natty, Nobby, posh, stylish, swell, viewy), i mrekullueshëm (divine, dreamy, elegant, excellent, fabulous, goluptious, goodly, gorgeous, heavenly, killing, magnificent, marvellous, marvelous, miraculous, nailing, peachy, prodigious, rare, ravishing, remarkable, slapping, spanking, striking, superior, transcendent, unusual, wonderful, wondrous), fjalë e zgjuar, elegant (chic, courtly, dainty, dashing, elegant, exquisite, fashionable, gallant, genteel, high-toned, modish, Nobby, silk stocking, Spruce, stylish, trig, willowy). (various references)

Bulgarian 

умен (brainy, bright, clever, cute, intelligent, politic, sage, shrewd, smart, wise), чудесен (admirable, beautiful, champion, clipping, cool, corking, delicious, elegant, excellent, fabulous, famous, fine, glorious, gorgeous, great, heavenly, hot, immense, lovely, magnificent, marvellous, marvelous, neat, noble, priceless, rattling, regular, ripping, scrumptious, smashing, spanking, splendid, super, terrific, thundering, topping, walloping, wizard, wonderful), готин, моден (chic, current, fashionable, genteel, go, high-toned, in, mainstream, mod, modern, modish, new, newfangled, rakish, saucy, smart, stylish, swanky, swell, swinging, swish), миризлив (nosey, nosy, odorous, whiffy), елегантен (classy, dashing, debonair, doggy, dressy, elegant, feat, fine, genteel, graceful, jimp, mod, plush, plushy, posh, rakish, saucy, sharp, silk stocking, smart, snappy, stylish, swell, swish, tasty), пъргав (active, agile, alert, alive, deft, elastic, lissom, lithesome, lively, nimble, nippy, pretty, prompt, quick, ready, resilient, sinuous, smart, snappy, spring, spry, versatile, volatile, wanton, warm, whippy, zippy), делови (businesslike). (various references)

Czech

mazaný (artful, cannie, canny, crafty, cunning, sharp, slick, sly), dùmyslný (inventive, natty, resourceful), šikovný (astute, cunning, cute, deft, dexterous, handy, ingenious, natty, skilled). (various references)

French

fringant. (various references)

German

hübsch (beautiful, bonnie, bonny, comely, delightful, fair, fine, handsome, lovely, neat, neatly, nice, nice-looking, pretty, tidy, trim), elegant (chic, dapper, dashing, dressy, elegant, elegantly, exclusive, fashionable, fine, genteel, graceful, handsomely, neat, neatly, niftily, plush, polished, posh, sartorial, sartorially, sleek, smart, sophisticated, stylish, stylishly, swanky). (various references)

Greek 

κομψόσ (bijou, chic, comely, dainty, dapper, debonair, dressy, elegant, fancy, fine, jaunty, natty, neat, posh, pretty, prim, quaint, rakish, smart, spark plug, sparkish, spiffy, stylish, trig, trim, well groomed), σβέλτοσ (alert, dapper, fleet, lissom, lissome, mobile, natty, nimble, nippy, spry, svelte), φίνοσ (delicate, swell), τησ μόδασ. (various references)

Hungarian

büdös (effing, feculent, fetid, foetid, foul, frowsty, malodorous, Olid, smelly, stank, stenchy, stinker, stinking, stinky, stunk, to stink, whiffy). (various references)

Italian

elegante (chic, courtly, Dandy, dapper, delicate, dressy, elegant, elegantly, fine, graceful, natty, plush, polite, posh, sleek, smart, snappy, stylish), azzimato (dapper, spiffy, Spruce, well groomed). (various references)

Pig Latin

iftynay.(various references)

Portuguese

estiloso, elegante (attic, beau, brave, braw, cheesy, chic, dainty, dandy, dapper, dink, dinky, fashionable, feat, fetching, flossy, gentlemanly, graceful, handsome, informed, jimp, knowing, ladylike, light, natty, neat, nobby, pasta, polished, polite, posh, silk stocking, slim, smart, spicy, spruce, stylish, tasteful, tasty, tony, trig, trim). (various references)

Romanian

straşnic (clinking, colossal, considerable, damnably, excellent, excessive, extreme, fine, gee, goody, grand, horrible, jolly, magnificent, mightily, proper, properly, rigorous, severe, severely, smashing, solid, some, sound, stern, swell, terrible, terribly, thundering, tremendous, with a vengeance), puturos (fetid, niffy, putrid, slugabed, stinking), grozav (a, almighty, atrocious, awful, awfully, bally, beastly, bully, classy, clinking, Dandy, desperate, dreadful, exceedingly, excessively, famous, fell, first rate, formidable, frightful, gee, ghastly, grand, horrible, horrid, immense, immensely, jolly, killing, like blazes, like hell, lovely, mad, magnificent, mightily, nicely, plush, plushy, proper, ripping, some, stunning, swell, terrible, terribly, terrific, thundering, topping, tremendous, tremendously, uncommonly, vastly, whacking), clasa prima. (various references)

Russian 

модный (cheesy, de rigueur, fancy, fashionable, hip, modish, new-fashioned, nobby, saucy, snappy, stylish, swanky, trendy, with it). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

izvanredan (extraordinary, masterly, outstanding, raving, remarkable, spanking, super, superb, terrific, whacking), divan (admirable, adorable, davenport, delightful, delightsome, divan, divan bed, divine, dreamy, gorgeous, great, groovy, high-toned, jolly, lovely, magnificent, neat, scrumptious, sofa, splendid, stunning, superb, terrific). (various references)

Spanish

muy pera (classy, ritzy, slap up), ingenioso (acute, artful, clever, daedal, daemonic, demonic, ingenious, politic, resourceful, witty), hábil (able, accomplished, adroit, capable, clever, cunning, deft, dexterous, experienced, expert, handy, light-handed, masterly, neat, neat-handed, practised, proficient, shrewd, skilful, skilled, skillful, slick), experto (able, accomplished, Ace, adept, adroit, clever, connoisseur, dexterous, experienced, expert, knowledgeable, nimble, practiced, practised, proficient, seasoned, sharp, skilful, skilled, skillful), elegante (bijou, chic, courtly, dainty, debonair, dressy, elegant, fashionable, Flossy, fragrant, genteel, graceful, handsome, ladylike, natty, neat, Nobby, posh, rakish, refined, silk stocking, smart, snazzy, sporty, stylish, trim), ágil (able, adroit, agile, clever, deft, dexterous, limber, lissom, lissome, lithe, lithesome, nimble, nippy, proficient, quick, skillful, spry, zappy). (various references)

Swedish

tjusig (captivating, dishy, snazzy). (various references)

Thai

เชี่ยวชาญ, ห้าสิบ. (various references)

Turkish

zeki (apt, as fresh as paint, astute, brainy, bright, brilliant, clear, clever, cute, discerning, ingenious, intellectual, intelligent, keen, keen-witted, longheaded, luminous, neat, nimble-witted, penetrating, penetrative, perceptional, perspicacious, quick of comprehension, quick on the trigger, quick-witted, sapient, sharp, sharp-witted, shrewd, smart, sparkling, spiritual, subtile, subtle, understanding), havalı (airy, dashing, flash, flatulent, hot air, jaunty, La-di-da, la-di-dah, Nobby, ostentatious, pneumatic, posh, rakish, show off, showy, stylish, swagger, swanky, swell, swish, tonish), güzel (appealing, beauteous, beautiful, beautifully, beauty, Belle, bonny, comely, fair, fine, goluptious, good, good looking, goodly, handsome, lovely, nice, personable, pleasant, plummy, prettily, pretty, pulchritudinous, sapid, shapely, sightly, smart, swell, the beautiful, well, well favored, well-favoured, winsome), şık (alternative, chic, choice, classy, dandyish, dapper, dashing, doggy, dressy, elegant, fashionable, flash, go-go, in the ton, jaunty, mod, posh, rakish, saucy, sharp, sleek, smart, smooth, smug, snappy, snazzy, spicy, spiffing, spiffy, sporty, streamlined, stylish, swagger, swanky, swell, swish, thoroughbred, tidy, tonish, trig, up-market). (various references)

Ukrainian

стильний (cheesy, doggish, saucy, scrumptious, stylish, trendy), спритний (adroit, agile, alert, arch, artful, canny, cunning, deft, dexterous, dodgy, fly, handy, light fingered, light-handed, natty, nimble, nimble footed, nimble-fingered, pert, politic, practical, shuffling, slick, tactical, whipping, wide awake, zippy), відмінний (a, alien from, another, bang up, different, disparate, distinct, distinctive, divergent, exquisite, nailing, perfect, swell, tidy, variant, way up), вправний (able, accomplished, adroit, artful, canny, capable, clever, crafty, cunning, deft, good, handy, jemmy, neat, neat-handed, practised, proficient), модний (cheesy, chic, dressy, fancy, fashionable, in wear, modish, passant, snappy, spiffing, stylish, swellish), елегантний (becoming, chic, debonair, delicate, elegant, genteel, graceful, nice, primp, silk stocking, smirk, spiffed, swagger, swell, well-tailored), дотепне зауваження (snip-snap), дотеп (esprit, gag, joke, mot, quirk, repartee, salt, wheeze, wisecrack, witticism, yak). (various references)

Misspellings

"Nifty" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Finty, giftie, gifty, inty, naffy, Naft, neftis, nefty, Nefyn, netfly, niffy, nift, nifto, nigty, ninti, ninty, nintyy, nitey, niti, nitly, nitti, nity, noft, nuft, rifty, snifty, wifty. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: tiny, tyin.

-2 letters: fin, fit, nit, tin, yin.

-3 letters: if, in, it, ti.

+1 letter: flinty, notify.

+2 letters: faintly, flyting, introfy, niftily, nitrify, tiffany, unfitly.

+3 letters: affinity, felinity, feminity, finality, finitely, flintily, flytings, gentrify, identify, infantry, infinity, quantify, renotify, sanctify.

+4 letters: citifying, defiantly, denitrify, fecundity, fittingly, infirmity, intensify, notifying, outflying, prenotify, profanity, ratifying, safetying, tepefying, tumefying, typifying, unthrifty.

+5 letters: acetifying, antifamily, beatifying, brutifying, certifying, conformity, definitely, driftingly, fantasying, femininity, fetchingly, fleetingly, flippantly, fortifying, fraternity, frontality, gratifying, infelicity, infidelity, infinitely, introfying, justifying, lithifying, manifestly, metrifying, mortifying, mystifying, nitrifying, petrifying, profundity, putrefying, rectifying, reidentify, satisfying, stiflingly, stupefying, tackifying, terrifying, testifying, torrefying, torrifying, uniformity, vitrifying.