Natty

Definition: Natty

Natty

Adjective

1. Marked by smartness in dress and manners; "a dapper young man"; "a jaunty red hat".

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

Date "natty" was first used: 1785. (references)

Note: Natty \Nat"ty\, adjective. [Compare to Neat clean.]. (references)

Literature

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

Synonyms: Natty

Beauty

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

Crosswords: Natty

Books

• Case of Natty Nat (reference)

• Walt Disney Pictures' the Journey of Natty Gann (Storybook) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• The Journey of Natty Gann (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Natty and Nice: A Reggae Christmas (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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

Albanian

shik (elegant, nifty, Nobby, posh, stylish, swell, viewy), krëk (spick and span, Spruce), i zoti (able, accomplished, adroit, capable, delicate, dexterous, dextrous, efficient, expert, fool, neat, neat-handed, proficient, skilful, skillful), i shkathët (adroit, agile, artful, brisk, catlike, clever, cunning, deft, dexterous, dextrous, facile, feat, habile, knacky, light-handed, lightsome, lissom, lissome, lithe, lithesome, loose-limbed, lubricous, neat, neat-handed, nimble, quick-witted, ready, resourceful, shifty, skilful, skillful, slick, smart, spry, supple, swift-handed, tactical, vivacious). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مكار (smart), ‏متذوق (connoisseur), ‏ذكي (acute, agile, astute, brainy, bright, brilliant, clever, cute, dashing, fox, ingenious, intelligent, knowledgeable, luminous, penetrating, quick, sagacious, sharp, sharp-witted, smart, wise, witty), ‏أنيق (bijou, chic, classy, coxcomb, dainty, dapper, dashing, dinky, dressy, elegant, exclusive, fine, gallant, genteel, good looking, gracious, jaunty, ladylike, mincing, 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, tidy, tight, trim, well groomed). (various references)

Bulgarian 

стегнат (close-textured, compact, concise, crisp, firm, neat, rakish, sailorly, serried, sinewy, soldierlike, soldierly, spiffing, spiffy, taut, tidy, tight, tricksy, trig, trim, well groomed), чист (absolute, chaste, clean, cleanly, clear, crisp, crystal, downright, fair, fine, fresh, heavenly, immaculate, incorrupt, innocent, lucid, mere, native, neat, net, orderly, oriental, pellucid, pristine, pure, rank, sanitary, self, sheer, simon-pure, soilless, solid, stainless, sterling, straight, sublime, sweet, taintless, trim, unadulterated, unalloyed, unblemished, unmixed, unpolluted, unsophisticated, unspotted, unstained, virgin, virginal, virtuous, white, white-handed), напет, ловък (able, adroit, agile, artful, dodgy, handy, knacky, knowing, light fingered, neat, neat-handed, peart, politic, pretty, shrewd, skilful, skillful, slick, swift-handed, tricksy, tricky, wary, whizbang), бърз (agile, brisk, dapper, expedite, expeditious, express, fast, forward, hasty, hurried, light-heeled, lively, nippy, precipitate, pressing, prompt, quick, rapid, rattling, ready, rush, sharp, slapdash, slippy, smart, spanking, speedy, sweeping, time-saving, urgent, wing-footed). (various references)

Czech

obratný (adroit, deft, dexterous, sailorly, skilly), fešácký, elegantní (becoming, ciceronian, dapper, dashing, dressy, elegant, fashionable, full-fashioned, glamorous, glamourous, graceful, light-some, neat, sleek, smart, snappy, sophisticated, Spruce, swanky, swell, trim), dùmyslný (inventive, nifty, resourceful), švihácký (dashing, foppish), šikovný (astute, cunning, cute, deft, dexterous, handy, ingenious, nifty, skilled). (various references)

Farsi 

پاکیزه (Brisk, Clean, Neat, Spruce, Sprucy, Tidy, Trim), ماهر (Adept, Adroit, Cunning, Deft, Dexterous, Dextrous, Expert, Great, Handy, Industrious, Jimmy, Pert, Proficient, Skillful, Slick, Understanding, Workmanlike), چالاک (Adroit, Deft, Dexterous, Dextrous, Handy, Jimmy, Lissome, Nimble, Nippy, Pawky, Peppy, Prompt, Sprightly, Spry), قشنگتر, اراسته (Brisk, Decent, Decorous, Politic, Prissy, Spruce, Sprucy). (various references)

French

chic, bien trouvé, astucieux. (various references)

German

nett (cute, cutely, fair, kind, kindly, lovely, neat, neatly, nice, nice-looking, nicely, pleasant, prettily, pretty, tidy). (various references)

Greek 

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

Hebrew 

מ�'ו� �"ר (coquettish, dandified, dressed up, flaunting, mincing, swell), חרוץ (active, ambitious, assiduous, diligent, industrious, laborious, sedulous), � א�" (comely, dwelling, fine, habitation, handsome, meadow, nice, pasture, personable, pleasant, presentable, pretty, seemly, sightly). (various references)

Hungarian

takaros (dapper, dinky, neat, picked, proper, spruce, tidy, tricksy, trig, trim), elegáns (cheesy, doggish, dressy, elegant, fashionable, flossy, graceful, light, nifty, Nobby, posh, primp, sassy, saucy, smart, snappy, spicy, spiffing, spiffy, spruce, stylish, swell, swish, tacky, tricksy, upscale), csinos (bonnie, bonny, compt, crackajack, crackerjack, crummy, cunning, cute, dolly, easy on the eye, easy to look at, foxy, good looking, handsome, have good looks, neat, nice-looking, nifty, personable, pretty, proper, seemly, she's got it, sightly, Spruce, tidy, tight, tricksy, trig). (various references)

Italian

elegante (chic, courtly, Dandy, dapper, delicate, dressy, elegant, elegantly, fine, graceful, nifty, plush, polite, posh, sleek, smart, snappy, stylish). (various references)

Pig Latin

attynay.(various references)

Portuguese

garboso (elegant), elegante (attic, beau, brave, braw, cheesy, chic, dainty, dandy, dapper, dink, dinky, elegant, fashionable, feat, fetching, flossy, gentlemanly, graceful, handsome, informed, jimp, knowing, ladylike, light, neat, nifty, nobby, pasta, polished, polite, posh, silk stocking, slim, smart, spicy, spruce, stylish, tasteful, tasty, tony, trig, trim), destro (able, adroit, clean, cunning, deft, dexterous, dextrous, feat, knacky, light-handed, neat-handed, quick, righthand, right-handed, skilful, skillful, slick). (various references)

Romanian

spilcuit (Dandy, dapper, sporty, swell, swish), isteţ (adroit, clever, cunning, cute, fast, forward, mercurial, perspicacious, quick-witted, sharp, sharp-sighted, smart, spirited), abil (adroit, apt, artful, artistic, artistical, astute, clean, clever, competent, crafty, cunning, deep, deft, dexterous, fit, handy, industrious, knowing, qualified, ready, resourceful, sharp, shifty, skilful, skilfully, skilled, skillful, skillfully, sly, smart, subtle, swift-handed, versatile), îndemânatic (adroit, adroitly, clever, deft, dexterous, dextrous, handy, light-handed, skilful, skillful, slick, subtle, tricky, workmanlike). (various references)

Russian 

аккуратный (accurate, exact, meticulous, neat, on time, orderly, precise, prim, prompt, punctual, spruce, tidy, trim). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

kitnjast (fancy, flamboyant, gaudy, ornamental, ornate), gizdav (dapper, swish). (various references)

Spanish

pulido (polished, polishing), majo (bonny, good looking, nice, nob, pretty, smart, toff), elegante (bijou, chic, courtly, dainty, debonair, dressy, elegant, fashionable, Flossy, fragrant, genteel, graceful, handsome, ladylike, neat, nifty, Nobby, posh, rakish, refined, silk stocking, smart, snazzy, sporty, stylish, trim), coqueto (attractive, cocket, flirtatious, lady killer), coquetón (attractive, flirtatious, kittenish, lady killer), bien entrazado (well-dressed), acicalado (neat, smart, soigne, Spruce, trig, well groomed). (various references)

Swedish

prydlig (dainty, dapper, dinky, neat, smart, Spruce, tidy, trim, well groomed), nätt (dainty, dapper, neat, prettily, pretty, scantily, scanty, trim). (various references)

Turkish

zarif (canny, classy, clever, courtly, dainty, Dandy, dandyish, dinky, dressy, elegant, go-go, graceful, gracious, neat, pretty, pulchritudinous, recherche, sharp, stylish, sylphish, sylphlike, sylphy), süslü (arrayed, bombastic, chichi, fancy, figurative, florid, flowery, frilly, high-flown, luxuriant, ornate), ince işe yatkın. (various references)

Ukrainian

спритний (adroit, agile, alert, arch, artful, canny, cunning, deft, dexterous, dodgy, fly, handy, light fingered, light-handed, nifty, nimble, nimble footed, nimble-fingered, pert, politic, practical, shuffling, slick, tactical, whipping, wide awake, zippy), чепурний (cleanly, deft, dink, neat, trim), охайний (clean, cleanly, deft, neat, orderly, shipshape, smart, smug, spiffed, tidy), майстерний (bijou, curious, daedal, dedal, dexterous, handicraft, masterful, masterly, neat-handed, shrewd, skilful, skillful, technical, workmanlike), акуратний (careful, neat, orderly, shipshape, snug, spry). (various references)

Vietnamese 

duyên dáng khéo tay, chải chuốt; đỏm dáng, đẹp (bonny, charming, comely, gainly, good-looking, goodly, picturesque, splendid). (various references)

net. (various references)

Derivations

Words ending with "natty": gnatty. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Natty" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: antity, antny, antti, Anty, Atty, knatty, nanty, nati, Natitia, natt, nattie, Natts, natu, Nautt, nautty, nauty, nazti, neaty, neti, netty, Ngati, nigty, nitey, nitti, nitto, nity, notty, Notyp, Nuttey, snaty, tanty. (additional references)

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: ant, any, att, nay, tan, tat.

-3 letters: an, at, ay, na, ta, ya.

+1 letter: gnatty, tetany, tyrant.

+2 letters: dittany, nattily, tantivy, tyrants.

+3 letters: antetype, anticity, antitype, attorney, entreaty, latently, latinity, natality, natantly, natatory, nativity, nonfatty, nystatin, patently, pattypan, quantity, sanctity, tanistry, tautonym, tenacity, tenantry, tonality, truantry.

+4 letters: antetypes, antiparty, antipathy, antiquity, antistory, antitypes, atonality, attorneys, blatantly, candytuft, certainty, chatoyant, contrasty, distantly, instantly, intestacy, maternity, mentality, nystatins, paternity, patiently, pattypans, syntactic, tautonyms, tautonymy, ternately, thyratron, tympanist, wyandotte, yattering.