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Spruceness

Definition: Spruceness

Spruceness

Noun

1. The state of being neat and smart and trim.

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

Date "spruceness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1509. (references)


Synonym: Spruceness

Synonym: neatness (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Spruceness

English words defined with "spruceness": GemminessJemminessPickedness. (references)
Etymologies containing "spruceness": Jemminess. (references)

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Modern Translation: Spruceness

Language Translations for "spruceness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

Sauberkeit (accuracy, cleanliness, cleanness, crispness, neatness, purity, tidiness). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κομψότησ (jauntiness, neatness, prettiness, primness, rakishness, smartness, stylishness, trigness, trimmness), κομψότητα (comeliness, daintiness, elegance, elegancy, jauntiness, neatness, prettiness, primness, rakishness, smartness, stylishness, trigness, trimmness), φιλοκαλία (love of beauty). (various references)

   

Manx

  

skeoighid (cosiness, neatness, smartness, snugness, tidiness, trimness). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ucenessspray

   

Romanian

  

cochetãrie (affectation, archness, coquetry, coyness, demureness, elegance, smartness, tidiness). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

прибранность. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

zarafet (daintiness, dainty, elegance, fineness, grace, gracefulness, graciousness, pulchritude, stylishness), fiyaka (air, airs, blazon, blazonry, gimmickry, show off, showing off, splash, swank), şıklık (chic, elegance, fashionness, finery, smartness, style, swank, ton, trimness). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

sự diêm dúa, sự chải chuốt (titivation), sự bảnh bao. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Spruceness

Derivations

Words beginning with "spruceness": sprucenesses. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Spruceness

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-e-n-p-r-s-s-s-u"

-1 letter: percusses, suspenser.

-2 letters: censures, censuses, pureness, spencers, sureness, suspense.

-3 letters: censers, censure, ceruses, cresses, cussers, ensures, percuss, peruses, precess, presses, recuses, rescues, screens, secerns, secures, spencer, spences, spenses, spruces.

-4 letters: censer, censes, census, cereus, ceruse, cesses, creeps, crepes, cruses, curses, cusser, cusses, ensues, ensure, enures, nesses, nurses, perses, peruse, preens, prunes, purees, purses, pusses.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-e-n-p-r-s-s-s-u"
 

+2 letters: preciousness, sprucenesses.

 

+3 letters: corruptnesses, repercussions.

 

+4 letters: percussiveness, perniciousness, precariousness, preciousnesses, precociousness, preconsciouses, predaceousness, psychoneuroses, respectfulness.

 

+5 letters: incorruptnesses, perspicuousness, picturesqueness, precipitousness, rapaciousnesses.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Anagrams
7. Bibliography


  

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