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Tidy   /tˈaɪdi/   Listen
Tidy

adjective
(compar. tidier; superl. tidiest)
1.
Marked by order and cleanliness in appearance or habits.  "A tidy house" , "A tidy mind"
2.
(of hair) neat and tidy.  Synonym: kempt.
3.
Large in amount or extent or degree.  Synonyms: goodish, goodly, healthy, hefty, respectable, sizable, sizeable.  "A goodly amount" , "Received a hefty bonus" , "A respectable sum" , "A tidy sum of money" , "A sizable fortune"
verb
(past & past part. tidied; pres. part. tidying)
1.
Put (things or places) in order.  Synonyms: clean up, neaten, square away, straighten, straighten out, tidy up.
noun
1.
Receptacle that holds odds and ends (as sewing materials).



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"Tidy" Quotes from Famous Books



... when its broad-faced, dimpled friend came home with a bride so fair and well-descended. They dressed the sign before his door with flowers. Only the groom wore an anxious face as he led her into his tidy home, now for the first ...
— Tales of the Chesapeake • George Alfred Townsend
... the bolt of lissom lath; Fair Margaret, in her tidy kirtle, Led the lorn traveller up the path, Through clean clipt rows of box and myrtle. And Don and Sancho, Tramp and Tray, Upon the parlour steps collected, Wagg'd all their tails, and seem'd to say, "Our master ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Volume 13, No. 362, Saturday, March 21, 1829 • Various
... truth, then, could be impressed upon the poor people, a servant-girl would leap and praise and thank God; and with her tidy work for which she receives support and wages she would acquire such a treasure as all that are esteemed the greatest saints have not obtained. Is it not an excellent boast to know and say that, if you perform your daily domestic task, this is ...
— The Large Catechism by Dr. Martin Luther
... have left my letter to the last moment before starting for Lyttleton; everything is re-packed and ready, and we sail to-morrow morning in the Albion. She is a mail-steamer—very small after our large vessel, but she looks clean and tidy; at all events, we hope to be only on board her for ten days. In England one fancies that New Zealand is quite close to Australia, so I was rather disgusted to find we had another thousand miles of steaming to do ...
— Station Life in New Zealand • Lady Barker
... rarely left her and which made her plain, sickly face yet plainer. She sat down at her writing table, on which stood miniature portraits and which was littered with books and papers. The princess was as untidy as her father was tidy. She put down the geometry book and eagerly broke the seal of her letter. It was from her most intimate friend from childhood; that same Julie Karagina who had been at the ...
— War and Peace • Leo Tolstoy


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