adjective, verb, noun
adjective (tidier, tidiest)
1 (especially BrE) arranged neatly and with everything in order:
a tidy room / desk * She keeps her flat very tidy. * I like everything to be neat and tidy.
OPPUNTIDY
2 (especially BrE) keeping things neat and in order:
I'm a tidy person. * tidy habits
3 [onlybeforenoun] (informal) a tidy amount of money is fairly large:
It must have cost a tidy sum. * a tidy profit
OPPUNTIDY
tidily adverb:
The room was very tidily arranged.
tidiness noun [U]
verb (tidies, tidying, tidied, tidied) ~ (sth) (up) (especially BrE) to make sth look neat by putting things in the place where they belong:
[V] I spent all morning cleaning and tidying. * When you cook, could you please tidy up after yourself. * [VN] to tidy (up) a room / a cupboard / papers / your hair
PHRASALVERBS
tidy sth<->away (BrE) to put things in the place where they belong, especially where they cannot be seen, so that a room appears tidy:
Can you tidy away your clothes, please?
tidy sth<->up to arrange or deal with sth so that it is well or correctly finished:
I tidied up the report before handing it in.
Part of speech: noun
(plural tidies) (BrE) (especially in compounds) a container for putting small objects in, in order to keep a place tidy:
a desk tidy
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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Is tidy a noun, verb, or something else?
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