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grooming

grooming

24 2.2
Caring for hair and appearance to look neat
  • noun
  • /ˈɡruːmɪŋ/
translation icon : aseo personal
  • Good personal grooming involves keeping your hair neat and wearing clean clothes.
  • personal grooming
  • grooming and dressing
  • beauty and grooming

This trimmer will change the way you approach your grooming routine.

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Examples

  • Like Manscaped is a global leader in men's grooming and hygiene, creating the world's first all in one men's grooming kit that covers you from head to toe.

  • Every morning, the students would fulfill their jobs for Hope's upkeep, including grooming and feeding.

    Academic text (2013)
  • With the right grooming and handling... we'll go a lot further.

  • So I keep boxes and boxes of grooming products here and other products there.

  • Very suitable for male grooming, completing the look.

  • This trimmer will change the way you approach your grooming routine.

  • It was men's grooming, but they switched it to skin care at the last second.

  • Once again revolutionizing men's grooming with brand new Beard Hedger Pro Kit.

  • Lawlessness is rampant, panic stalks the streets, and personal grooming habits have reached an all-time low.

  • And if you want to pamper your furry friends, head over to petsmart.com to book a grooming or just a walk in for a standalone service.

Synonyms

styling
vsgrooming
12 3.5

Arranging hair and beard to look neat or fashionable

is about care and neatness rather than creating a new visual design
hair care
vsgrooming
8 1.3

Looking after hair by washing, cutting, and treating it

is broader covering overall appearance and neatness beyond scalp and strands
hairdressing
vsgrooming
4 2.5

The activity of cutting, styling, and caring for people's hair

is the everyday personal process to keep oneself neat and clean rather than service

Compounds

A popular new way to cut and care for pets' fur

A small tool used to clean and make hair or skin look nice

How Neat

grooming
24 2.2
neglect
100 3.5

Surface Forms

grooming singular
groomings plural

Morphology

grooming = groom (transparent) = groom + ing

A direct gerund/nominalization from the verb 'groom' meaning to clean or make neat; the noun denotes that action and is straightforward for learners.

Etymology

Grooming comes from the word groom, which was a helper who cared for horses and would 'clean and brush' them, so the image is of someone making an animal neat and tidy.