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well-kept

well-kept adjective: neat, tidy, kept in good condition.

Adjective

well-kept (comparative better-kept or more well-kept, superlative best-kept or most well-kept)

  1. neat, tidy, kept in good condition.
    • Halfway from Hellingly Station, the railway enters the well-kept hospital grounds, and runs parallel with a tree-lined drive about half a mile long.1957 December, H. R. Stones, “The Hellingly Hospital Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 871
    • Budleigh Salterton, five miles from Exmouth, is another crossing station, and in common with most stations on the Devon branches it is clean and tidy, and has a well-kept garden.1960 June, R. C. Riley, “The coastal branches of South-East Devon: Part Two”, in Trains Illustrated, page 337
  2. not told to anyone.

Forms of well-kept

comparativebetter-kept
comparativemore well-kept
superlativebest-kept
superlativemost well-kept
alternative formwell kept

Questions about well-kept

What does well-kept mean?
Well-kept means neat, tidy, kept in good condition.
What part of speech is well-kept?
Well-kept is an adjective.

Words near well-kept in the dictionary

  1. well-informed
  2. well-intended
  3. well-intentioned
  4. well-kempt
  5. well-kemptness
  6. well-kept
  7. well-knit
  8. well-known
  9. well-laid
  10. well-learned
  11. well-liked

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