spruceness
11Pickedness — Pick ed*ness, n. 1. The state of being sharpened; pointedness. [1913 Webster] 2. Fineness; spruceness; smartness. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Too much pickedness is not manly. B. Jonson. [1913 Webster] …
12spruce — I. verb (spruced; sprucing) Date: 1594 transitive verb to make spruce often used with up intransitive verb to make oneself spruce < spruce up a bit > II. adjective (sprucer; spruces …
13spruce — spruce1 /sproohs/, n. 1. any evergreen, coniferous tree of the genus Picea, of the pine family, having short, angular, needle shaped leaves attached singly around twigs and bearing hanging cones with persistent scales. 2. any of various allied… …
14snap — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. crackle, rapping, pop, crack, report, clap, smack; vigor, pep, verve, dash, élan; smartness, spruceness, crispness; spell (of weather); informal, sinecure, cinch, soft job. v. break, crack, crackle;… …
15cleanliness — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. cleanness, neatness, purity, tidiness, trimness, spruceness, nattiness, immaculateness, spotlessness, dapperness, fastidiousness, finicality, orderliness, freshness, whiteness, daintiness, disinfection, sanitation,… …
16tidiness — (Roget s IV) n. Syn. neatness, spruceness, uniformity; see cleanliness …
17spruce — spruce1 adjective neat and smart. verb (spruce someone/thing up) make a person or place smarter. Derivatives sprucely adverb spruceness noun Origin C16: perh. from spruce2 in the obs. sense Prussian , in the phr. spruce (leather) jerkin. spruce2… …
18neatness — n. 1. Cleanness, cleanliness, tidiness. 2. Nicety, spruceness, trimness. 3. Chasteness, simplicity, purity …
19smartness — n. 1. Sharpness, keenness, poignancy, pungency, acuteness, severity. 2. Vigor, force, energy, quickness. 3. Liveliness, briskness, vivacity, wittiness, readiness, sprightliness. 4. Expertness, dexterity, cleverness, quickness, activity,… …
20neat — neat, tidy, trim, trig, snug, shipshape, spick and span mean manifesting care and orderliness. Neat through all its variations in sense keeps as its basic implication clearness, such as the clearness from dirt or soil that is manifest chiefly in… …
