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| Main Entry: |
shipshape
[ship-sheyp]
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | tidy |
| Synonyms: | businesslike, chipper, clean, in good shape, in tip-top condition, neat, ordered, orderly, spick-and-span, trim, uncluttered, well-groomed, well-kept |
| Main Entry: | good |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pleasant, fine |
| Synonyms: | acceptable, ace*, admirable, agreeable, bad, boss*, bully, capital, choice, commendable, congenial, crack*, deluxe, excellent, exceptional, favorable, first-class, first-rate, gnarly, gratifying, great, honorable, marvelous, neat*, nice, pleasing, positive, precious, prime, rad, recherché, reputable, satisfactory, satisfying, select, shipshape, sound, spanking, splendid, sterling, stupendous, super, super-eminent, super-excellent, superb, superior, tip-top, up to snuff, valuable, welcome, wonderful, worthy |
| Notes: | using good as an adverb in place of well ("she dances real good," "he did good") is nonstandard usage - so, it would be best to say "she dances very well," "he did well" well is an adverb to describe an activity; good is an adjective to describe a condition or state |
| Antonyms: | bad, detestable, disagreeable, unpleasant |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | neat |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | arranged well, uncluttered |
| Synonyms: | accurate, apple-pie order, chic*, correct, dainty, dapper, elegant, exact, fastidious, finical, finicky, immaculate, in good order, in good shape, methodical, natty, neat as a pin, nice, orderly, precise, prim, proper, regular, shipshape, sleek, slick, smart, spick-and-span, spotless, spruce, systematic, tidy, trim, well-groomed, well-kept |
| Antonyms: | disorderly, messed up, sloppy, slovenly, unkempt |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | ordered |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | orderly |
| Synonyms: | all together, arranged, businesslike, controlled, disciplined, in good shape, in order, law-abiding, methodical, neat, organized, peaceable, precise, shipshape, systematic, systematized, tidy, well-behaved, well-organized |
| Main Entry: | orderly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | methodical, organized |
| Synonyms: | alike, all together, arranged, businesslike, careful, clean, conventional, correct, exact, fixed, formal, framed, in apple-pie order, in good shape, in order, in shape, methodic, neat, neat as button, neat as pin, precise, regular, regulated, scientific, set-up, shipshape, slick, spick-and-span, systematic, systematized, thorough, tidy, to rights, together, trim, uncluttered, uniform |
| Antonyms: | complicated, disorderly, disorganized, unmethodical, unsystematic, untidy |
| Main Entry: | prim |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | particular, fussy |
| Synonyms: | Victorian, blue-nose, ceremonial, ceremonious, choosy, cleanly, conventional, correct, dapper*, decorous, demure, fastidious, formal, genteel, good, goody-goody, nice, nit-picking, orderly, overmodest, polite, precise, priggish, prissy, proper, prudish, puritanical, rigid, shipshape, spic-and-span, spruce, stickling, stiff, straight, strait-laced, stuffy, tidy, uncluttered, upright, well-groomed, wooden |
| Antonyms: | informal, rumpled |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | spick-and-span |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | neat and clean |
| Synonyms: | brand-spanking new, clean, clean and tidy, cleaned, cleaned up, fresh, gleaming, hygienic, immaculate, neat, polished, pure, sanitary, shining, shipshape, spic-and-span, spotless, spruce, tidy, unsoiled, unstained, untarnished, very clean |
| Main Entry: | straight |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | orderly |
| Synonyms: | arranged, correct, exact, in order, neat, organized, put to rights, right, shipshape, sorted, tidy |
| Antonyms: | disordered, disorderly, disorganized |
| Main Entry: | tidy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | clean, neat |
| Synonyms: | apple-pie order, businesslike, chipper, cleanly, in good shape, methodical, neat as a pin, ordered, orderly, shipshape, sleek, snug, spick-and-span, spruce, systematic, to rights, trim, uncluttered, well-groomed, well-kept, well-ordered |
| Antonyms: | chaotic, dirty, disordered, disorganized, littered, messy, sloppy, slovenly, unclean, untidy |
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