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to titivate

to titivate

9.3
To make a place or yourself neat and look nicer
  • verb
  • /ˈtɪtɪˌveɪt/
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  • She spent an hour trying to titivate herself before the party.

Examples

  • You should titivate your outfit for the party.

  • She titivated her garden before the guests arrived.

  • He likes to titivate his desk every Monday morning to start the week fresh.

  • Just titivate the garden a bit and it will look much better for the guests.

  • She took a moment to titivate her hair before the big event.

  • He decided to titivate his outfit for the interview by adding a tie.

  • Before the guests arrived, she quickly titivated the living room to impress them.

Synonyms

to spruce
vsto titivate
  • Informal
26 4.1

To make a place or person look neat and smart

focuses on general neatness and tidying rather than style alone
to spruce up
vsto titivate
  • Informal
13 3.8

To make yourself or a place look cleaner and nicer

emphasizes tidy smartness and small appearance improvements rather than deep change
to beautify
vsto titivate
9 3.2

To make a place or person more attractive by adding decorations like paint

is narrower, aiming at tidy smartness rather than full beautification
to freshen up
vsto titivate
  • Informal
4 3.0

Make a room look cleaner and nicer with small changes

focuses more on neatness and styling than on cleaning or brightening
to smarten
vsto titivate
3 3.9

To make someone or something look neater and more attractive

leans more toward casual tidy changes rather than careful styling
to spiff up
vsto titivate
  • Informal
1 7.2

Make a person or place look neater and nicer by cleaning and adding small things

stresses overall neatness and simple grooming rather than decoration
to neaten
vsto titivate
1 3.7

To make something tidy by arranging things in order

is more about improving overall appearance and style rather than pure order
to prettify
vsto titivate
1 5.0

Make something look more attractive, often only on the surface

is more about practical neatness and grooming than surface decoration
to smarten up
vsto titivate
  • Informal
1 4.8

Make yourself or a place look neater and more stylish

covers the same neat appearance but with broader phrasing and use
to tittivate
vsto titivate
9.9

To make something or yourself look neat and attractive

is the same meaning but uses the other, more common spelling
to slick up
vsto titivate
  • Informal
6.8

Make a person look neat and more attractive by dressing and grooming them carefully

is broader, covering tidy changes beyond dress or grooming

Antonyms

to neglect
256 3.8

Fail to care for someone or something you should look after

How Neat

to transform
523 3.4
to spruce up
  • Informal
13 3.8
to titivate
9.3
to tidy
42 1.0

Surface Forms

titivate infinitive
titivated past
titivated past participle
titivating present participle
titivates third person singular

Morphology

titivate = titi + ate

The verb is not transparently built from a recognizable modern English base for learners; the apparent root 'titi' is not a standalone English word and the '-ate' ending does not yield a clearly derivable meaning.

Etymology

Titivate is a playful English verb you can remember by thinking of tidy with an extra lively ending. It means 'to make neat' or 'to spruce up', so to titivate something is to make it look smart and tidy.