Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun tidy

1 sense of tidy

Sense 1
tidy -- (receptacle that holds odds and ends (as sewing materials))
       => receptacle -- (a container that is used to put or keep things in)

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb tidy

1 sense of tidy

Sense 1
tidy, tidy up, clean up, neaten, straighten, straighten out, square away -- (put (things or places) in order; "Tidy up your room!")
       => order -- (bring order to or into; "Order these files")

Antonyms of adj tidy

3 senses of tidy

Sense 1
tidy (vs. untidy) -- (marked by order and cleanliness in appearance or habits; "a tidy person"; "a tidy house"; "a tidy mind")

untidy (vs. tidy) -- (not neat and tidy; "careless and untidy in her personal habits"; "an untidy living room"; "untidy and casual about money")
        => blowsy, blowzy, slatternly, sluttish -- (characteristic of or befitting a slut or slattern; used especially of women)
        => cluttered, littered -- (filled or scattered with a disorderly accumulation of objects or rubbish; "the storm left the drivewaylittered with sticks nd debris"; "his library was a cluttered room with piles of books on every chair")
        => disheveled, dishevelled, frowzled, rumpled, tousled -- (in disarray; extremely disorderly; "her clothing was disheveled"; "powder-smeared and frowzled"; "a rumpled unmade bed"; "a bed with tousled sheets"; "his brown hair was tousled, thick, and curly"- Al Spiers)
        => disorderly, higgledy-piggledy, hugger-mugger, jumbled, topsy-turvy -- (in utter disorder; "a disorderly pile of clothes")
        => frowsy, frowzy, slovenly -- (negligent of neatness especially in dress and person; habitually dirty and unkempt; "filled the door with her frowzy bulk"; "frowzy white hair"; "slovenly appearance")
        => messy, mussy -- (dirty and disorderly; "a mussy fussy bedroom"; "a child's messy eating habits")
        => scraggly -- (lacking neatness or order; "the old man's scraggly beard"; "a scraggly little path to the door")
        => sloppy -- (lacking neatness or order; "a sloppy room"; "sloppy habits")
        => slouchy -- (lacking stiffness in form or posture; "a slouchy sweater")
        => sprawling, straggling, rambling, straggly -- (spreading out in different directions; "sprawling handwriting"; "straggling branches"; "straggly hair")
        => unkempt -- (not properly maintained or cared for; "an unkempt garden"; "native vistas and unkempt rambling paths"; "an ukempt appearance")

Sense 2
kempt, tidy -- ((of hair) neat and tidy; "a nicely kempt beard")

INDIRECT (VIA groomed) -> ungroomed -- (not neat and smart in appearance; "he was wrinkled and ungroomed, with a two-day beard"; "ungroomed hair")

Sense 3
goodly, goodish, healthy, hefty, respectable, sizable, sizeable, tidy -- (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")

INDIRECT (VIA considerable) -> inconsiderable -- (too small or unimportant to merit attention; "passed his life in an inconsiderable village"; "their duties were inconsiderable"; "had no inconsiderable influence")

Similarity of adj tidy

3 senses of tidy

Sense 1
tidy (vs. untidy) -- (marked by order and cleanliness in appearance or habits; "a tidy person"; "a tidy house"; "a tidy mind")
       => clean-cut, trig, trim -- (neat and smart in appearance; "a clean-cut and well-bred young man"; "the trig corporal in his jaunty cap"; "a trim beard")
       => neat, orderly -- (clean or organized; "her neat dress"; "a neat room")
       => neat -- (showing care in execution; "neat homework"; "neat handwriting")
       => ruly -- (neat and tidy; "a small ruly beard")
       => shipshape, trim, well-kept -- (of places; characterized by order and neatness; free from disorder; "even the barn was shipshape"; "a trim little sailboat")
       => slicked up -- (having been made especially tidy; "slicked up for visitors")
       => straight -- (neatly arranged; not disorderly; "the room is straight now")
       => uncluttered, unlittered -- (having nothing extraneous; "an uncluttered room"; "the unlittered shoulders of the road")
          Also See-> clean#1; fastidious#1; groomed#1

Sense 2
kempt, tidy -- ((of hair) neat and tidy; "a nicely kempt beard")
       => groomed (vs. ungroomed) -- (neat and smart in appearance; well cared for; "the manager was a beautifully groomed young man"; "his horse was always groomed")

Sense 3
goodly, goodish, healthy, hefty, respectable, sizable, sizeable, tidy -- (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")
       => considerable (vs. inconsiderable) -- (large or relatively large in number or amount or extent or degree; "a considerable quantity"; "the economy was a considerable issue in the campaign"; "went to considerable trouble for us"; "spent a considerable amount of time on the problem")

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