'Spruce' definitions:
Definition of 'spruce'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners; "a dapper young man"; "a jaunty red hat" [syn: dapper, dashing, jaunty, natty, raffish, rakish, spiffy, snappy, spruce]
noun
Light soft moderately strong wood of spruce trees; used especially for timbers and millwork
noun
Any coniferous tree of the genus Picea
verb
Make neat, smart, or trim; "Spruce up your house for Spring"; "titivate the child" [syn: spruce up, spruce, titivate, tittivate, smarten up, slick up, spiff up]
verb
Dress and groom with particular care, as for a special occasion; "He spruced up for the party" [syn: spruce up, spruce, slick up, smarten up]
Definition of 'Spruce'
From: GCIDE
- Spruce \Spruce\, v. i. To dress one's self with affected neatness; as, to spruce up. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Spruce'
From: GCIDE
- Spruce \Spruce\ (spr[udd]s), a. [Compar. Sprucer (spr[udd]"s[~e]r); superl. Sprucest (spr[udd]"s[e^]st).] [Perhaps fr. spruce a sort of leather from Prussia, which was an article of finery. See Spruce, n.]
- 1. Neat, without elegance or dignity; smart; trim; -- formerly applied to things with a serious meaning; now chiefly applied to persons. "Neat and spruce array." --Remedy of Love. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Sprightly; dashing. [Obs.] "Now, my spruce companions." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- He is so spruce that he can never be genteel. --Tatler. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Finical; neat; trim. See Finical. [1913 Webster] -- {Spruce"ly}, adv. -- {Spruce"ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Spruce'
From: GCIDE
Synonyms of 'spruce'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- anal,
- bandbox,
- bowdlerized,
- braw,
- chic,
- classy,
- clean up,
- cleaned,
- cleaned up,
- cleansed,
- clothes-conscious,
- cosmopolitan,
- dapper,
- dashing,
- dinky,
- doggy,
- dressed to advantage,
- dressed to kill,
- dressed up,
- elegant,
- en grande tenue,
- endimanche,
- expurgated,
- exquisite,
- genteel,
- gussied up,
- in full dress,
- in full feather,
- in high feather,
- in tails,
- jaunty,
- modish,
- natty,
- neat,
- nifty,
- nobby,
- posh,
- primp,
- purged,
- purified,
- recherche,
- refined,
- reformed,
- ritzy,
- sassy,
- sharp,
- shipshape,
- sleek,
- slick,
- slicked up,
- smart,
- smarten up,
- smug,
- snazzy,
- snug,
- soigne,
- soignee,
- sophisticated,
- spiffy,
- spruce up,
- straighten out,
- straighten up,
- style-conscious,
- stylish,
- swank,
- swanky,
- swell,
- tidy,
- tidy up,
- tight,
- titivate,
- tricksy,
- trig,
- trim,
- well turned-out,
- well-cared-for,
- well-dressed,
- well-groomed
Words containing 'Spruce'
- Spruced,
- Sprucely,
- Spruceness,
- Sprucing,
- spruce up,
- spruced up,
- Douglas spruce,
- Essence of spruce,
- Hemlock spruce,
- Spruce Pine,
- Spruce beer,
- Spruce grouse,
- Spruce leather,
- Spruce partridge,
- White spruce,
- black spruce,
- brewer's spruce,
- colorado spruce,
- eastern spruce,
- engelmann spruce,
- engelmann's spruce,
- norway spruce,
- oriental spruce,
- red spruce,
- siberian spruce,
- silver spruce,
- sitka spruce,
- spruce squirrel,
- weeping spruce,
- yellow spruce,
- Spruce Pine, NC,
- colorado blue spruce,
- spruce bark beetle,
- spruce gall aphid,
- Samsula-Spruce Creek,
- big-cone spruce,
- Samsula-Spruce Creek, FL,
- dressed-up dressed to the ninespredicate dressed to killpredicate dolled up spruced up spiffed up