1-Stop Dictionary Reference

Sprucely

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Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

ad. In a spruce manner; neatly and elegantly.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

In a spruce manner; smartly; trimly; smugly.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

ad. in a stylish manner

Word Usage

"‘Ah! Hawk,’ said one very sprucely – dressed personage in a Newmarket coat, a choice neckerchief, and all other accessories of the most unexceptionable kind."

Equivalent

fashionable stylish

Verb Form

spruced sprucely spruceness spruces sprucing

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

fancify beautify embellish prettify neaten groom wood

Cross Reference

black spruce spruce leaf-hopper Sitka spruce new zealand spruce double spruce spruce bud-louse spruce timber-beetle red spruce white spruce douglas spruce bark-beetle

Variant

picea

Form

spruced sprucing spruce up

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

pruce neat trim finical smart sprightly dashing dress smarten titivate

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

Bruce Chartreuse Duce Luce Seuss Zeus abstruse abuse boose bruce

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

fir cedar maple evergreen pine larch juniper hickory sycamore redwood