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sprucest

sprucest is the superlative form of spruce.

Meaning of spruce

Adjective

spruce (comparative sprucer, superlative sprucest)

  1. (comparable) Smart, trim, and elegant in appearance; fastidious (said of a person).
    • Hovv often vvould the Svvaines prepare their Morrice & their May / To haue a ſight of her, vvhen all enamoured vvent their vvay? / The ſprevvſeſt Citie-Lads for her vvould faine the Countrie-aire, / And that their prouder Girles had but adultrate beauties ſvvaire, […]1606, William Warner, “The Sixteenth Booke. Chapter CI.”, in A Continuance of Albions England: […], London: […] Felix Kyngston [and Richard Bradock?] for George Potter, […], →OCLC, page 399
    Synonyms:
    pulchritudinous

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Questions about sprucest

What is sprucest the superlative form of?
Sprucest is the superlative form of spruce.

Words near sprucest in the dictionary

  1. sprucens up
  2. sprucer
  3. sprucery
  4. spruces
  5. spruces up
  6. sprucest
  7. sprucey
  8. sprucier
  9. spruciest
  10. sprucification
  11. sprucified

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