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KonMari

KonMari verb: to apply Marie Kondo's KonMari method of organizing to (something).

Verb (1)

KonMari (third-person singular simple present KonMaris, present participle KonMari-ing, simple past and past participle KonMaried or KonMari'd)

  1. (transitive) To apply Marie Kondo's KonMari method of organizing to (something).
    • Another woman said she KonMaried a bad boyfriend. Having tidied everything in her home and finding she still distinctly lacked happiness, she held her boyfriend in her hands, realized he no longer sparked joy and got rid of him.2016 July 6, Taffy Brodesser-Akner, “Marie Kondo and the Ruthless War on Stuff”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 06 Jul 2016
    • The metric of objects only “sparking joy” is deeply problematic when applied to books. The definition of joy (for the many people yelling at me on Twitter, who appear to have Konmari’d their dictionaries) is: “A feeling of great pleasure and happiness, a thing that causes joy, success or...2019 January 7, Anakana Schofield, “What we gain from keeping books – and why it doesn’t need to be ‘joy’”, in The Guardian

Verb (2) capitalized: Konmari

Konmari (third-person singular simple present Konmaris, present participle Konmari-ing, simple past and past participle Konmaried or Konmari'd)

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of KonMari.

Forms of KonMari

third-person singular presentKonMaris
present participleKonMari-ing
past participleKonMaried
pastKonMaried
past participleKonMari'd
pastKonMari'd
alternative formKonmari
third-person singular presentKonmaris
present participleKonmari-ing
past participleKonmaried
pastKonmaried
past participleKonmari'd
pastKonmari'd

Origin of KonMari

Clipping of Kondo and Marie.

Questions about KonMari

What does KonMari mean?
KonMari means to apply Marie Kondo's KonMari method of organizing to (something).
What part of speech is KonMari?
KonMari is a verb.
What is the past tense of KonMari?
The past tense of KonMari is KonMaried.

Words near KonMari in the dictionary

  1. Konkols
  2. Konkow
  3. konks
  4. konks out
  5. Konlian
  6. KonMari
  7. Konner
  8. konnichi wa
  9. konnichiwa
  10. Konnor
  11. konnyaku

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: KonMari (page history and authors); Konmari (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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