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tidily

tidily adverb: in a tidy manner; neatly; cleanly.

Adverb

tidily (comparative more tidily, superlative most tidily)

  1. In a tidy manner; neatly; cleanly.
    • And a man mun keep watch at t mill toft / To stiddy his mouter-dish — help him to sift it, / And see it's o' tidily done1875, William Dickinson, Cumbriana; Or, Fragments of Cumbrian Life, page 231
    • Bonnet drama, conversely, removes us tidily from any such responsibility to a world of rules and rituals, where everyone knows their place...2000, Maureen Lipman, Lip Reading
  2. (obsolete) seasonably; betimes
  3. (obsolete) suitably; duly; favourably

tidily meaning in Tamil and Malayalam

tidily in Tamil

அவுசாக

tidily in Malayalam

വൃത്തിയായി, വെടിപ്പായി, ശുചിയായി

Forms of tidily

comparativemore tidily
superlativemost tidily

Origin of tidily

From Middle English tidili, tidily, equivalent to tidy + -ly.

Questions about tidily

What does tidily mean?
Tidily means in a tidy manner; neatly; cleanly.
What is tidily in Tamil?
Tidily in Tamil is அவுசாக. See Tidily meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is tidily?
Tidily is an adverb.

Words near tidily in the dictionary

  1. tidies
  2. tidies one's sock drawer
  3. tidies up
  4. tidiest
  5. tidifes
  6. tidily
  7. tidiness
  8. tidinesses
  9. tiding
  10. tiding over
  11. tidingless

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: tidily (page history and authors); tidily (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); tidily (Malayalam 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.

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