Word.ws English Dictionary

tidivate

tidivate is the alternative spelling of titivate.

Meaning of titivate

Verb

titivate (third-person singular simple present titivates, present participle titivating, simple past and past participle titivated)

  1. (transitive) To make small improvements or alterations to (one's appearance etc.); to add some finishing touches to, to spruce up or touch up.
    • Had she spent the best part of a day in titivating herself in order that she might sit plunged in darkness, with nothing but her feet and her nose revealed?1950, Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast

Forms of tidivate

third-person singular presenttidivates
present participletidivating
past participletidivated
pasttidivated

Questions about tidivate

What is tidivate the alternative spelling of?
Tidivate is the alternative spelling of titivate.

Words near tidivate in the dictionary

  1. tidinesses
  2. tiding
  3. tiding over
  4. tidingless
  5. tidings
  6. tidivate
  7. tidivated
  8. tidivates
  9. tidivating
  10. tidley
  11. tidley winks

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: tidivate (page history and authors); titivate (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:

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