Adjective: tidy
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
| Comparative | tidier |
| Superlative | tidiest |
Perifrastic
Sample Sentences
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She always kept her desk immaculately tidy; nothing was ever out of place.
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Keep Britain tidy by picking up litter.
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The scheme made a tidy profit.
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Two hundred thousand people! Miss Glory, that's a tidy lot. Not bad. [c. 1921 (date written), Karel Čapek, translated by Paul Selver, R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots): A Fantastic Melodrama […], Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1923, →OCLC, Act 1:]
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if weather be fair and tidy [1573, Thomas Tusser, Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry:]
Adjectives inflected like tidy
syrupy,
seemly,
seggsy,
snuffy,
snippy,
snitty,
sniffy,
snotty,
snouty,
snobby,
snoozy,
snooty,
snazzy,
snappy,
snarky,
snarly,
snassy,
snaily,
snacky,
snaggy, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From Middle English tidy, tydy, tidi (“timely, seasonal, opportune”), from tide (“time”) + -y. Cognate with Saterland Frisian tiedig (“timely, early”), Dutch tijdig (“timely”), German Low German tiedig (“timely”), German zeitig (“seasonal, timely”), Danish tidig (“timely”), Swedish tidig (“timely”). See: Dutch Adjectives '
tijdig', German Adjectives '
zeitig', Swedish Adjectives '
tidig'.
Verbs referencing "tidy"
German Adjectives
zeitig.