tidy

Adjective

tidy (comparative tidier, superlative tidiest)

1. Arranged neatly and in order.
   • She always kept her desk immaculately tidy; nothing was ever out of place.

   Synonyms:

   neat

2. Not messy; neat and controlled.
   • Keep Britain tidy by picking up litter.
3. (colloquial) Satisfactory; comfortable.
4. (colloquial) Generous, considerable.
   • The scheme made a tidy profit.
   • Two hundred thousand people! Miss Glory, that's a tidy lot. Not bad.c. 1921 (date written), Karel Čapek, translated by Paul Selver, R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots): A Fantastic Melodrama […], Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1923, →OCLC, Act...
5. (obsolete) In good time; at the right time; timely; seasonable; opportune; favourable; fit; suitable.
   • if weather be fair and tidy1573, Thomas Tusser, Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry

   Synonyms:

   opportune

6. (obsolete) Brave; smart; skillful; fine; good.
7. Appropriate or suitable as regards occasion, circumstances, arrangement, or order.

   Synonyms:

   apt

8. (data science) Normalized in a certain way that optimizes for data analysis.

Verb

tidy (third-person singular simple present tidies, present participle tidying, simple past and past participle tidied)

1. To make tidy; to neaten.

Noun

tidy (plural tidies)

1. (in-compounds) A container or other device for storing or organizing loose items in a tidy fashion.
   • desk tidy; sink tidy; cable tidy
   • It was in the days when[…]every scrap of cotton or linen found its way into the ‘tidy’.1863, William Blanchard Jerrold, Signals of distress, in refuges and homes of charity, London, page 207
2. A cover, often of tatting, drawn work, or other ornamental work, for the back of a chair, the arms of a sofa, etc.
3. (dated) A child's pinafore.
   • A much coarser cotton, according to the fancy of the worker, may be used for the trimmings of night dresses, petticoats, D'Oyleys, tidies, etc.1846, Miss Lambert, The Handbook of Needlework
4. The wren.
   • The Tydie for her notes as delicate as they1612, Michael Drayton, chapter 13, in [John Selden], editor, Poly-Olbion. Or A Chorographicall Description of Tracts, Riuers, Mountaines, Forests, and Other Parts of this Renowned Isle of Great...

Interjection

1. (Wales) Expression of agreement or positive acknowledgement, usually in reply to a question; great, fine.

Proper noun capitalized: Tidy

Tidy

1. A surname.