tidy
/ˈtaɪ.di/ adjective A2- Arranged neatly and in order. · She always kept her desk immaculately tidy; nothing was ever out of place.
- Not messy; neat and controlled. · Keep Britain tidy by picking up litter.
- Satisfactory; comfortable.
- Generous, considerable. · The scheme made a tidy profit.
- Appropriate or suitable as regards occasion, circumstances, arrangement, or order.
- Normalized in a certain way that optimizes for data analysis.
Comparative tidier · Superlative tidiest
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O IT'S I that am the captain of a tidy little ship,
By this time she had found her way into a tidy little room with a table in the window, and on it (as she had hoped) a fan and two or three pairs of tiny white kid gloves: she took up the fan and a pair of the gloves, and was just going to leave the room, when her eye fell upon a little bottle that stood near the looking-glass.
He has the tidiest and most orderly brain, with the greatest capacity for storing facts, of any man living.
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