Word.ws English Dictionary

natty

UK/ˈnæti/

natty adjective: smart and fashionable.

Adjective (1)

natty (comparative nattier, superlative nattiest)

  1. (informal) Smart and fashionable.
    • “They’d look very natty, arm-in-crook together, and their best clothes on, whether or no, if he’s at all the well-favoured fellow he used to be.”1878, Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native
    • 'One of our witnesses has already had the misfortune to be rather badly run down while cycling, and I've had a natty-looking box of chocolates by post from an "unknown friend" myself,' replied the inspector.1927, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados Mysteries

Adjective (2)

natty (comparative nattier, superlative nattiest)

  1. (Jamaica, slang) Knotty.
    • natty dreadlocks

Adjective (3)

natty (comparative more natty, superlative most natty)

  1. (slang, particularly bodybuilding) Natural, as opposed to steroid enhanced.
    • natty gains

Noun (1)

natty (plural natties)

  1. (slang, particularly bodybuilding) Someone whose muscle gains are natural and not aided by the use of steroids.

Adjective (4)

natty (comparative more natty, superlative most natty)

  1. (slang) National.

Noun (2)

natty (plural natties)

  1. (slang) A national championship.
    • I hope my favorite team makes it to the natty this season.

Proper noun capitalized: Natty

Natty

  1. (US, slang) Natural beer, an economy brand of pale lager.
    • Natty Ice; Natty Light
  2. A diminutive of the female given name Natalie.

natty meaning in Urdu, Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada

natty in Urdu

بنا سنورا, خوش لباس, خوش وضع, صاف ستھرا, سلیقہ مند

natty in Bengali

পরিপাটি, ছোট ও ছিমছাম, ফিটফাট, ক্ষিপ্র ও দক্ষ, চটপটে

natty in Malayalam

fashionable, smart, stylish
വൃത്തിയുള്ള, സുഭഗനായ, പരിഷ്കാരിയായ, നാഗരികമായ, പുതിയരീതിയിലുള്ള, സഭ്യാചാരാനുരൂപമായ

natty in Kannada

ನೀಟಾದ, ಠೀಕಾದ, ನಾಜೂಕಾದ, ಚತುರ, ಕುಶಲ, ಅಂದವಾದ
More languagesFewer languages
natty in Arabic
أَنِيق ʔanīq, مُتَنَاغِم mutanāḡim

Examples of natty in a sentence

  • Vince, a natty 23-year-old financial analyst from Hoboken, made no bones about his agenda.
  • Below, a Sunday painter dabs at a canvas near the Pont Neuf, his suit as natty as any Landru wore.
  • John the Baptist would have been horrified at the beautifully cut dark, double-breasted jacket and the natty gray sponge bag pants.

All 10 example sentences with natty

Forms of natty

Adjective
comparativenattier
superlativenattiest
comparativemore natty
superlativemost natty
alternative formnattie
Noun
pluralnatties

Origin of natty

Originally slang, perhaps related to natural.

Variant of knotty.

Clipping of natural + -y.

Words formed from natty

Phrases with natty

Words that rhyme with natty

6 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about natty

What does natty mean?
Natty means smart and fashionable.
What is natty in Urdu?
Natty in Urdu is بنا سنورا, خوش لباس, خوش وضع. See Natty meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is natty?
Natty can be an adjective, a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce natty?
Natty is pronounced /ˈnæti/ (UK).

Words near natty in the dictionary

  1. Natton
  2. Nattress
  3. Natts
  4. nattuvan
  5. nattuvangam
  6. natty
  7. Natty Bo
  8. Natty Boh
  9. Natty Bohs
  10. Natty Bos
  11. nattō

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: natty (page history and authors); Natty (page history and authors); natty (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); natty (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); natty (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); natty (Kannada Wiktionary) (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.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: En-au-natty.ogg.

Cite this entry: “natty.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/natty. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.