tidy

Universal Words 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. noun (plural tidies) (BrE) (especially in compounds) a container for putting small objects in, in order to keep a place tidy: a desk tidy