sprucely
- adverb
- /ˈspruːsli/
:
con elegancia
- He dressed sprucely for the interview, choosing a well-fitted suit and polished shoes.
Examples
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He invented new courses and pedagogical strategies to lay before them like an inspired chef, just as he had dreamed up Professor Gregory Vollbart, the fellow in the black turtleneck and sprucely clipped beard.
Fiction book (2001) -
The garden was maintained sprucely, with every flowerbed perfectly tidy and vibrant.
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She arranged the living room sprucely, making it look both cozy and stylish.
Synonyms
11
3.9
In a way that looks elegant and not showy in clothes or rooms
5
3.5
In a neat, stylish way especially about clothes
4
3.5
In a fashionable and elegant way
In a fashionable way that follows current trends
Someone arranges things in a neat and tidy way
Antonyms
How Neat
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Sprucely comes from spruce + -ly, where spruce first meant 'from Prussia' and was used for fine clothes and leather, so it came to mean 'smart' or 'neat'. That's why sprucely means 'in a neat, tidy, and fashionable manner'.