Tidy

Definition: Tidy

Tidy

Adjective

1. Marked by good order and cleanliness in appearance or habits; "a tidy person"; "a tidy house"; "a tidy mind".

2. (used of hair) neat and tidy; "a nicely kempt beard".

3. Large in amount or extent or degree; "it cost a considerable amount"; "a goodly amount"; "received a hefty bonus"; "a respectable sum"; "a tidy sum of money"; "a sizable fortune".

Noun

1. Receptacle that holds odds and ends (as sewing materials).

Verb

1. Put (things or places) in order; "Tidy up your room!".

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

Date "tidy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1598. (references)

Slang in 1811

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

Synonyms: Tidy

Beauty

Goodly, dapper, tight, jimp; gimp; janty, jaunty; trig, natty, quaint, trim, tidy,neat, spruce, smart, tricksy.

Care

Tidy; (orderly), (clean); accurate; (exact); scrupulous; (conscientious); cavendo tutus; (safe).

Cleanness

Neat, spruce, tidy, trim, gimp, clean as a new penny, like a cat in pattens; cleaned; Verb: kempt.

Covering

Coverlet, counterpane, sheet, quilt, tarpaulin, blanket, rug, drugget; housing; antimacassar, eiderdown, numdah, pillowcase, pillowslip; linoleum; saddle cloth, blanket cloth; tidy; tilpah, apishamore.

Inexpedience

Tolerable; (not very good); up to the mark, unexceptionable, unobjectionable; satisfactory, tidy.

Order

Adjective: orderly, regular; in order,in trim, in apple-pie order, in its proper place; neat, tidy, en regle, well regulated, correct, methodical, uniform, symmetrical, shipshape, businesslike, systematic; unconfused; (see confuse; ); arranged.

Crosswords: Tidy

You're so tidy! (The Odd Couple; writing credit: Bill Angelos; Art Baer)

They all seem to go together like one little tidy confusing package. (Northern Exposure; writing credit: Khadijah Hashim)

Before I get on to the writing awards, there's a little matter I'd like to tidy up, at least if I expect to live with myself tomorrow morning. (The 50th Annual Academy Awards; writing credit: William Ludwig; Leonard Spigelgass)

Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul. (references; author: Mark Twain)

A tidy tiger tied a tie tighter to tidy her tiny tail. (references; author: unknown)

Tidy Endings (1988)

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Books

• The Tidy Bowl Man Lives & Jiffy John: Two Comic Novellas (reference)

• Tidy Heidi (reference)

• Tidy Titch (reference)

• Tidy Up (Small World (Minneapolis, Minn.).) (reference)

• Tidy Up, Trevor (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Bear in the Big Blue House - Tidy Time With Bear (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Tidy (reference)

• Tidy Cottage (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods

• Tidy Kids Storage Tub - Red (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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

This magnificence was tidy.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Business

The most successful sectors have been labor saving products that keep the garden tidy with the minimum of effort. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "tidy": a tidy penny ♦ make tidy ♦ neat and tidy ♦ tidy away ♦ tidy hair ♦ tidy oneself up ♦ tidy out ♦ tidy sum ♦ tidy tips ♦ tidy up. Additional references.

Beginning with "tidy": Tidy-i, tidy-like, tidy-minded, tidy-up.

Ending with "tidy": hair-tidy, over-tidy.

Containing "tidy": spring-tidy-up.

Afrikaans

beredder (arrange, fix up, liquidate, put in order). (various references)

Albanian

këllëf për krahët e kolltukut, i rregullt (above board, correct, done, even, formal, frequent, habitual, honest, just, licit, measured, neat, normal, on the level, orderly, regular, right, steady, systematic, systematical, trig, trim), i rëndësishëm (capital, consequential, earnest, epoch making, eventful, front page, grave, important, imported, impressive, inflated, jack in office, mattery, mouth-filling, notable, noteworthy, responsible, serious, sidy, significant, substantial), i pastër (absolute, chaste, childlike, clean, clean-handed, cleanly, clear, dapper, fair, innocent, neat, net, new, orderly, potty-trained, pure, refined, simon-pure, snug, spotless, sterling, trig, unadulterated, unblended, unimpeachable, unwritten, virgin, virginal, well groomed, white). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مهندم (neat, spruce, well groomed), ‏منهجي (formal, methodical, orderly, systematic), ‏منظم (arranger, disposed, governor, in good order, marshaled, neat, orderly, organized, organizer, regular, steward, systematic, well arranged, well ordered, well-organized), ‏مغرغة الجيوب, ‏مرتب ونظيف, ‏نظيف (clean, cleanly, fair, immaculate, neat, sanitary, spotless, spruce, stainless, taut), ‏نظف ويرتب (tidy up), ‏وعاء لأدوات الخياطة, ‏ضخم (astronomic, astronomical, awful, big, bulking, bulky, bull, colossal, colossus, considerable, distend, elephantine, enormous, exaggerate, extend, exuberant, fat, gargantuan, ghastly, giant, gigantic, goodly, grand, great, handsome, heavy, hefty, heroic, huge, hulking, husky, immense, intense, jumbo, large, leviathan, liberal, mammoth, mass, massive, mighty, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, outsize, oversize, palatial, phenomenal, powerful, prodigious, proud, round, royal, sizable, smart, strapping, strong, stupendous, sublime, swingeing, tall, titan, titanic, towering, tremendous, vast, voluminous, whacking, whopping), ‏أنيق (bijou, chic, classy, coxcomb, dainty, dapper, dashing, dinky, dressy, elegant, exclusive, fine, gallant, genteel, good looking, gracious, jaunty, ladylike, mincing, natty, neat, nice, perky, personable, posh, presentable, rich, saucy, seemly, sharp, smart, smug, sophisticated, spick and span, sporting, sportsmanlike, sporty, spruce, stylish, suave, swagger, swell, tailor made, taut, tight, trim, well groomed), ‏رتب (arrange, clean, collocate, construct, corral, dispose, do, form, hierarchy, lash up, line, marshal, ordain, order, pack, pigeonhole, plume, put in order, put things straight, range, rate, set, shape, sort, spruce up, stow, straighten, trim). (various references)

Bulgarian 

сресан, стегнат (close-textured, compact, concise, crisp, firm, natty, neat, rakish, sailorly, serried, sinewy, soldierlike, soldierly, spiffing, spiffy, taut, tight, tricksy, trig, trim, well groomed), спретнат (dapper, dinky, prim, rakish, sailorly, smart, smug, snug, tight, tricksy, trig, trim, well groomed), разтребвам (clean, clear up, do, pick up, put away), кошче за отпадъци (litter bin, trash can), грижлив (attentive, careful, fatherly, mindful, nice, regardful, solicitous, tender, thorough, thoughtful), значителен (appreciable, considerable, goodly, handsome, important, major, marked, monumental, respectable, round, sensible, serious, significant, smart, symbolic, symbolical), приемлив (acceptable, admissible, arguable, eligible, plausible, possible, reasonable, unobjectionable), порядъчен (considerable, nice, orderly, respectable, sober, steady, straightforward, upright, well-regulated), подреждам (adjust, arrange, assort, compose, dispose, do up, plash, pleach, preen, process, put in order, seriate, snug, sort out, trim), подреден (in good order, neat, orderly, prim, tight, trim, well arranged). (various references)

Chinese 

整齊 (neat), 整�" (neatly), 整洁 (NEAT). (various references)

Czech

uklidit (clean, clean up, clear up, do, straighten). (various references)

Danish

rydde op (arrange, put in order), rede (arrange, den, nest, put in order), indrette (arrange, fix up, install, put in order). (various references)

Dutch

terechtbrengen (arrange, fix up, put in order), schikken (arrange, be appropriate, be suitable, put in order, suit), ruimen (arrange, empty, put in order), regulier, regelen (arrange, fix up, organize, put in order, regularize, regulate), ordelijk, ordelýk, opruimen (arrange, put in order), niet onbeduidend (fair), inrichten (arrange, erect, establish, put in order), aardig (affable, amusing, dainty, entertaining, fair, fairly, friendly, funny, good-natured, kind, nice, pretty, rather, relatively). (various references)

Esperanto

sufiĉe granda (fair), ordigi (arrange, put in order), orda. (various references)

Faeroese

stíla fyri (arrange, put in order), skipa fyri (arrange, command, dictate, fix up, order, put in order, tell), rað (file, line, order, rank, row, series, set, turn), á rað. (various references)

Farsi 

پاکیزه (Brisk, Clean, Natty, Neat, Spruce, Sprucy, Trim), منظم کردن (Array, Order, Qualify, Rank, Regularize), مرتب کردن (Address, Arrange, Concert, Marshal, Range, Redd, Regularize, Serialize, Straighten), مرتب (Intrinsic, Kilter, Methodic, Neat, Ordered, Orderly, Prissy, Regular, Shipshape, Straight, Trim), اراستن (Apparel, Arrange, Array, Attire, Brave, Clothe, Embroider, Equip, Grace, Groom, Habit, Illustrate, Line, Perk, Pretty, Prim, Primp, Prune, Range, Rank, Stud, Trim), بطورمنظم . (various references)

Finnish

siivota (clean, put in order), siistiä (clean, put things straight), siisti (clean, cleanly, decent, neat). (various references)

French

têtière, régler, coquet, en ordre, joli, méthodique, ordonné, arrangé, propre, vide-poches, rangé, ranger (tidy up), rondelet, soigné, soigneux, ordonner. (various references)

German

ordentlich (fairly, full, neat, neatly, orderly, prim, proper, properly, real, reasonable, regular, reputable, respectable, seemily, seemy, tidily, trim, uncluttered, unruffled), geordnet (classified, orderly, put in order, sorted, tidyed, well ordered), aufräumen (clean up, clear, clear away, clear up, put away, sweep away, tidy away, tidy up, to clean up). (various references)

Greek 

τακτοποιώ (arrange, clear up, deal with, rearrange, regularize, reset, sort, sort out, trim). (various references)

Hebrew 

מסו�"ר ו� קי (neat, spick and span), ל� קות ולס�"ר (tidy up), תב�" (box, case, chest, crate), �'�"ול למ�"י (biggish, sizable), צפית (cover, pillowcase, slip, tick). (various references)

Hungarian

kosárka, tekintélyes (considerable, mighty, prestigious, respectable, stately, substantial), takaros (dapper, dinky, natty, neat, picked, proper, spruce, tricksy, trig, trim), rendes (decent, easy on the eye, easy to look at, good egg, jobholder, natty, neat, neatness, nice, normal, orderly, ordinary, ornery, regular, right, there are no flies on him, trim, usual), gondos (attentive, careful, diligent, heedful, mindful, painstaking, regardful, searching, solicitous, tender, thoughtful), bútorvédő. (various references)

Icelandic

innrétta (arrange, fix up, install, put in order). (various references)

Indonesian

merapikan (arrange, order, put in order), membereskan (arrange, clear up), beres (clean, finished, in order, settled), apik (attractive, chic, neat, trim). (various references)

Italian

ordinato (methodical, ordered, orderly, well ordered), lindo (clean, neat, spick and span, trig, unsoiled). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

綺麗 (beautiful, clean, fair, nice, pretty), 清楚 (neat and clean, trim), 小さっぱりした (neat, trim), 小奇麗 (neat, trim), 奇麗 (beautiful, clean, fair, nice, pretty). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

きれい (beautiful, clean, fair, nice, pretty), せいそ (fineness or coarseness, minuteness or roughness, neat and clean, trim), �"ぎれい (neat, trim), �"さっぱりした (neat, trim). (various references)

Korean 

단� �한. (various references)

Manx

skeoigh (neat, snug, spruce), resoonagh (coherent, consistent, judicious, logical, moderate, rational, reasonable, reasoner, remonstrative, sensible), jeshaghey (arrange, dress, grace, make up, service, smarten, toilet, trim), jesh (adept, becoming, elegant, fancy, felicitous, groomed, neat, ready, righthand, rightwing, seemly, smart, starboard;nice, suitable, trim), jeadagh (assiduous, avid, diligent, persevering, prudent, sincere), jannoo skeoigh (spruce), cur reaghys er (clear up, sort out), cumiragh, cumir (brief, compact, concise). (various references)

Norwegian

innrede (arrange, fix up, install, put in order). (various references)

Pig Latin

idytay

Polish

porządkować. (various references)

Portuguese

arrumado (neat, spruce, straight, well-done). (various references)

Romanian

aranja (adjust, arrange, clench, compose, compound, concert, conclude, contrive, dispose, do, do out, engineer, fiddle, fix, fix up, impose, juggle, Marshal, order, organize, pose, posture, put in order, put to rights, put up, set, set out, set to rights, settle, size, stage, Stow, straighten, suit, tidy up, trim). (various references)

Russian 

салфеточка (antimacassar, doily), опрятный (clean, clean-cut, dapper, natty, neat, trig), значительный (big, considerable, distinguish, epoch making, groundbreaking, handsome, humungous, important, of great importance, pretty, sizable, sizeable), аккуратный (accurate, exact, meticulous, natty, neat, on time, orderly, precise, prim, prompt, punctual, spruce, trim). (various references)

Scottish

sgoinneil (attentive, neat, trim), laghach (neat, pretty), innich (handy, lovely), gleusda (clever, expert, trim, well-exercised), cuimir (brief, concise, handsome, trim), cearmanta. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

uredan (clean-cut, neat, orderly, shipshape, taut), navlake za nameštaj, čist (clean, clear, fine, fresh, limpid, mere, neat, net, plain, pure, sheer, spotless, unadulterated, unmixed, unspotted). (various references)

Spanish

arreglar (accommodate, arrange, assort, do, doctor, dress, fix, fix up, frame, lay out, line up, mend, order, patch up, posh up, put in order, quadrate, regularize, regulate, rig up, set right, settle, sew up, smarten, smarten up, smooth, smooth out, sort, sort out, Square, stage, tell off, tidy out, tidy up, tie up, trim up), ordenado (businesslike, defendant, in order, level, neat, ordered, orderly, organized, shipshape). (various references)

Swedish

städa (clean, tidy up), snygg (clean, clean-limbed, dishy, fine, good, good looking, good-looking, handsome, neat, nice, precious, trim), prydlig (dainty, dapper, dinky, natty, neat, smart, spruce, trim, well groomed), ordentlig (careful, glorious, good, neat, orderly, proper, regular, Square). (various references)

Thai

เป็นที่น่าพอใจ (คำไม่เป็นทางการ), น่าพึงพอใจ (fine), ผ้าคลุมเบาะหลังของเก้าอี้, ทำให้เรียบร้อย (neaten), ที่เป็นแบบแผน, ที่เป็นระเบียบ, กล่องใส่ของเล็กๆ, จั�"ให้เรียบร้อย (tidy out). (various references)

Turkish

tertipli (orderly, organized, shipshape), temiz (chaste, clean, clean-handed, cleanly, clear, fair, fairly, fresh, kosher, neat, neatly, pure, respectable, sanitary, Spruce, unpolluted, unsoiled, unspotted, unstained), sandâlye arkası örtüsü, epey (a good deal of, a great deal of, a great many, fairly, goodish, not a little, pretty well, quite, reasonably, some, well), derli toplu (orderly, respectable, trim, well coordinated, well groomed), düzenli (clean-cut, coordinate, dainty, equal, even, harmonious, in good trim, in order, methodical, neat, ordered, orderly, organized, regular, right, settled, snug, stated, steady, systematic, systematical), şık (alternative, chic, choice, classy, dandyish, dapper, dashing, doggy, dressy, elegant, fashionable, flash, go-go, in the ton, jaunty, mod, nifty, posh, rakish, saucy, sharp, sleek, smart, smooth, smug, snappy, snazzy, spicy, spiffing, spiffy, sporty, streamlined, stylish, swagger, swanky, swell, swish, thoroughbred, tonish, trig, up-market), çok (a great number of, a lot, a whale of, a whale of a lot, abounding, abundant, acres and acres, affluent, ample, awfully, badly, big, bloody, countless, damned, darned, dead, deadly, deeply, enormously, ever so, exuberant, fair, fantastically, galore, good, greatly, heaps of, heartily, hearty, heavily, heavy, hell, hell of, helluva, highly, innumerable, jolly, largely, lavish, like hell, loads of, lot, lots of, many, molto, more, much, multi-, multitudinous, numerous, over, piping, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, plenty of, poly-, precious, pretty, prodigal, profuse, rank, rattling, revoltingly, sadly, so, some, sorely, spanking, strongly, such, thundering, too, umpteen, umpteenth, umptieth, vast, vastly, very, well, whaling, whopping), çöp sepeti (wastebasket), ıvır zıvır kutusu. (various references)

Turkmen 

яygnaюdyrmak (tidy up). (various references)

Ukrainian

у доброму стані (in fine fettle, in good order, in order), відмінний (a, alien from, another, bang up, different, disparate, distinct, distinctive, divergent, exquisite, nailing, nifty, perfect, swell, variant, way up), охайний (clean, cleanly, deft, natty, neat, orderly, shipshape, smart, smug, spiffed), значний (appreciable, considerable, gey, handsome, important, independent, intense, notable, pretty, respectable, smart, substantive), приймати (accept, adopt, assume, embrace, initiate, receive, take in, take on, take over), прибратися (clean up), прибирати (bedeck, char, clean up, deck, decorate, do out, put away, rid, smarten). (various references)

Vietnamese 

thùng chứa vật linh tinh, sạch sẽ (clean, unsoiled), ngăn nắp (trim, well-ordered). (various references)

Welsh

twtio, twt (neat, smart, tut!), tacluso (trim), taclus (neat, trim), syber (clean, decent, sober), cymon (orerly, seemly), cryno (compact, neat). (various references)

munda, mundaberis, mundabimini, mundabis, mundabisque, mundabit, mundabitur, mundabo, mundabor, mundabunt, mundamini, mundandus, mundans, mundantes, mundantur, mundare, mundarentur, mundaret, mundari, mundas, mundata, mundatam, mundate, mundati, mundatio, mundatione, mundatis, mundatum, mundatur, mundatus, mundaveram, mundavero, mundaverunt, mundavi, mundavit, mundavitque, mundemus, mundent, munder, mundo, permundabit. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "tidy": tidying, tidytips. (additional references)

Words ending with "tidy": untidy. (additional references)

Words containing "tidy": phosphatidyl, phosphatidylcholine, phosphatidylcholines, phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylethanolamines, phosphatidyls, untidying. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Tidy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: didy, didya, Gtdi, idy, itd, itdg, itey, pidy, sidy, taddy, tadly, tady, taudy, tbd, tdi, tdy, teady, tedi, tedy, tewy, tiby, ticy, tida, tiddy, tidey, tidgy, tidie, tidig, tido, tids, tidys, tiedi, tiey, tify, Tigy, Tildey, tildy, tily, timy, Tipy, tiry, tisy, titi, titie, Titiyo, tity, Tityo, Tivy, tixy, Tiy, tiyr, todi, toidy, Toity, twid, Tydd, Tyddyn, tyry, vidy. (additional references)

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: dit, yid.

-2 letters: id, it, ti.

+1 letter: deity, dicty, dirty, ditsy, ditty, ditzy.

+2 letters: dainty, daylit, dimity, drifty, nudity, oddity, tiddly, tidily, untidy.

+3 letters: acidity, aridity, avidity, bedirty, crudity, cystoid, dacoity, dactyli, dakoity, daytime, density, destiny, dicotyl, dietary, dignity, diptyca, diptych, dirtily, dithery, dittany, dottily, duality, dubiety, dustily, edacity, fetidly, fidgety, hydatid, idylist, katydid, lyddite, phytoid, satyrid, staidly, styloid, stymied, tardily, tepidly, thirdly, thyroid, tidally, tideway, tidying, timidly, tindery, tiredly, tripody, tumidly, twiddly, typhoid, viduity.