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Adjective: tidy (tidier,tidiest)  tI-dee
  1. Marked by order and cleanliness in appearance or habits
    "a tidy person"; "a tidy house"; "a tidy mind"
     
  2. (of hair) neat and tidy
    - kempt
     
  3. [informal] Large in amount, extent or degree
    "a tidy sum of money";
    - goodly, goodish, healthy, hefty, respectable, sizable, sizeable
Verb: tidy  tI-dee
  1. Put (things or places) in order
    "Tidy up your room!";
    - tidy up, clean up, neaten, straighten, straighten out, square away [N. Amer], declutter
Noun: tidy  tI-dee
  1. Receptacle that holds odds and ends (as sewing materials)
     
  2. An instance of tidying
    "this place needs a good tidy"

Derived forms: tidied, tidying, tidiest, tidier, tidies

See also: clean, clean-cut, considerable, fastidious, groomed, neat, orderly, ruly, shipshape, slicked up, straight, trig [dialect], trim, uncluttered, unlittered, well-kept

Type of: order, receptacle

Antonym: untidy

Encyclopedia: Tidy, Thomas