| cleanse | | |
| v. (body) | 1. clean, cleanse | clean one's body or parts thereof, as by washing.; "clean up before you see your grandparents"; "clean your fingernails before dinner" |
| ~ bathe | cleanse the entire body.; "bathe daily" |
| ~ wash | to cleanse (itself or another animal) by licking.; "The cat washes several times a day" |
| ~ lave, wash | cleanse (one's body) with soap and water. |
| ~ soap, lather | rub soap all over, usually with the purpose of cleaning. |
| ~ bath, bathe | clean one's body by immersion into water.; "The child should bathe every day" |
| ~ douche | direct a spray of water into a bodily cavity, for cleaning. |
| ~ neaten, groom | care for one's external appearance.; "He is always well-groomed" |
| ~ floss | use dental floss to clean.; "floss your teeth after every meal" |
| ~ decontaminate | rid of contamination.; "The soil around the housing development had to be decontaminated by the city" |
| v. (change) | 2. cleanse | purge of an ideology, bad thoughts, or sins.; "Purgatory is supposed to cleanse you from your sins" |
| ~ denazify | free from Nazi ideology or detach from Nazi allegiance.; "Germany was denazified after WW II"; "The highest judges were never denazified" |
| ~ disembarrass, rid, free | relieve from.; "Rid the house of pests" |
| neat | | |
| adj. | 1. neat, orderly | clean or organized.; "her neat dress"; "a neat room" |
| ~ tidy | marked by order and cleanliness in appearance or habits.; "a tidy person"; "a tidy house"; "a tidy mind" |
| adj. | 2. neat | showing care in execution.; "neat homework"; "neat handwriting" |
| ~ tidy | marked by order and cleanliness in appearance or habits.; "a tidy person"; "a tidy house"; "a tidy mind" |
| adj. | 3. neat, refined, tasteful | free from what is tawdry or unbecoming.; "a neat style"; "a neat set of rules"; "she hated to have her neat plans upset" |
| ~ elegant | refined and tasteful in appearance or behavior or style.; "elegant handwriting"; "an elegant dark suit"; "she was elegant to her fingertips"; "small churches with elegant white spires"; "an elegant mathematical solution--simple and precise and lucid" |
| adj. | 4. clean, neat | free from clumsiness; precisely or deftly executed.; "he landed a clean left on his opponent's cheek"; "a clean throw"; "the neat exactness of the surgeon's knife" |
| ~ adroit | quick or skillful or adept in action or thought.; "an exceptionally adroit pianist"; "an adroit technician"; "his adroit replies to hecklers won him many followers"; "an adroit negotiator" |
| adj. | 5. bang-up, bully, corking, cracking, dandy, great, groovy, keen, neat, nifty, not bad, peachy, slap-up, smashing, swell | very good.; "he did a bully job"; "a neat sports car"; "had a great time at the party"; "you look simply smashing" |
| ~ colloquialism | a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech. |
| ~ good | having desirable or positive qualities especially those suitable for a thing specified.; "good news from the hospital"; "a good report card"; "when she was good she was very very good"; "a good knife is one good for cutting"; "this stump will make a good picnic table"; "a good check"; "a good joke"; "a good exterior paint"; "a good secretary"; "a good dress for the office" |
| adj. | 6. full-strength, neat, straight | without water.; "took his whiskey neat" |
| ~ undiluted | not diluted.; "undiluted milk"; "an undiluted racial strain" |
| tidy | | |
| n. (artifact) | 1. tidy | receptacle that holds odds and ends (as sewing materials). |
| ~ receptacle | a container that is used to put or keep things in. |
| v. (change) | 2. clean up, neaten, square away, straighten, straighten out, tidy, tidy up | put (things or places) in order.; "Tidy up your room!" |
| ~ make up, make | put in order or neaten.; "make the bed"; "make up a room" |
| ~ order | bring order to or into.; "Order these files" |
| ~ clean house, houseclean, clean | clean and tidy up the house.; "She housecleans every week" |
| adj. | 3. tidy | marked by order and cleanliness in appearance or habits.; "a tidy person"; "a tidy house"; "a tidy mind" |
| ~ clean | free from dirt or impurities; or having clean habits.; "children with clean shining faces"; "clean white shirts"; "clean dishes"; "a spotlessly clean house"; "cats are clean animals" |
| ~ fastidious | giving careful attention to detail; hard to please; excessively concerned with cleanliness.; "a fastidious and incisive intellect"; "fastidious about personal cleanliness" |
| ~ clean-cut, trig, trim | neat and smart in appearance.; "a clean-cut and well-bred young man"; "the trig corporal in his jaunty cap"; "a trim beard" |
| ~ neat, orderly | clean or organized.; "her neat dress"; "a neat room" |
| ~ neat | showing care in execution.; "neat homework"; "neat handwriting" |
| ~ ruly | neat and tidy.; "a small ruly beard" |
| ~ shipshape, trim, well-kept | of places; characterized by order and neatness; free from disorder.; "even the barn was shipshape"; "a trim little sailboat" |
| ~ slicked up | having been made especially tidy.; "slicked up for visitors" |
| ~ straight | neatly arranged; not disorderly.; "the room is straight now" |
| ~ uncluttered, unlittered | having nothing extraneous.; "an uncluttered room"; "the unlittered shoulders of the road" |
| ~ groomed | neat and smart in appearance; well cared for.; "the manager was a beautifully groomed young man"; "his horse was always groomed" |
| adj. | 4. kempt, tidy | (of hair) neat and tidy.; "a nicely kempt beard" |
| ~ groomed | neat and smart in appearance; well cared for.; "the manager was a beautifully groomed young man"; "his horse was always groomed" |
| adj. | 5. goodish, goodly, healthy, hefty, respectable, sizable, sizeable, tidy | large in amount or extent or degree.; "it cost a considerable amount"; "a goodly amount"; "received a hefty bonus"; "a respectable sum"; "a tidy sum of money"; "a sizable fortune" |
| ~ considerable | large or relatively large in number or amount or extent or degree.; "a considerable quantity"; "the economy was a considerable issue in the campaign"; "went to considerable trouble for us"; "spent a considerable amount of time on the problem" |
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