trim
adjective/trɪm/
/trɪm/
- (of a person) looking thin, healthy and attractive
- She has kept very trim.
- a trim figure
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- neat and well cared for synonym well kept
- a trim garden
Word OriginOld English trymman, trymian ‘make firm, arrange’, of which the adjective appears to be a derivative. The word's history is obscure; current verb senses date from the early 16th cent. when usage became frequent and served many purposes: this is possibly explained by spoken or dialect use in the Middle English period not recorded in existing literature.
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