- (especially British English) arranged neatly and with everything in order
- a tidy desk
- She keeps her flat very tidy.
- I like everything to be neat and tidy.
- The room was clean and tidy.
- The place has never looked so tidy.
Extra Examples- It was a neatly furnished and immaculately tidy room.
- She admired the incredibly tidy garden.
- Why does nothing ever stay tidy around here?
- When we had finished the churchyard looked far tidier.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- look
- seem
- …
- extremely
- fairly
- very
- …
- clean and tidy
- neat and tidy
- (especially British English) keeping things neat and in order
- I'm a tidy person.
- He is obsessively tidy.
- tidy habits
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- look
- seem
- …
- extremely
- fairly
- very
- …
- clean and tidy
- neat and tidy
- [only before noun] (informal) a tidy amount of money is fairly large synonym considerable
- It must have cost a tidy sum.
- a tidy profit
Word OriginMiddle English: from the noun tide + -y. The original meaning was ‘timely, opportune’; it later had various senses expressing approval, usually of a person, including ‘attractive’, ‘healthy’, and ‘skilful’; the sense ‘orderly, neat’ dates from the early 18th cent.
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