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Spick-and-span synonyms
spĭk'ən-spăn'
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neat
Clean and in good order; trim; tidy
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  1. Clean and in good order; trim; tidy
  2. Habitually tidy or well-organized:
  3. Marked by ingenuity and skill; adroit:
orderly
Free from disorder; neat or well-arranged:
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  1. Free from disorder; neat or well-arranged:
  2. Neat or tidy in arrangement; in good order
  3. Given to keeping things neat or well-arranged:
shipshape
Organized, serviceable, trained and ready for action
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  1. Organized, serviceable, trained and ready for action
  2. Orderly and neat; tidy:
  3. Meticulously neat and tidy
snug
Tight or close in fit
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  1. Tight or close in fit
  2. Close-fitting:
  3. Trim and well-built; seaworthy
spruce
Neat and trim in a smart, dapper way
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  1. Neat and trim in a smart, dapper way
  2. Neat, trim, and smart in appearance:
taut
Marked by the efficient, sparing, or concise use of something, such as language or detail:
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  1. Marked by the efficient, sparing, or concise use of something, such as language or detail:
  2. Pulled or drawn tight; not slack.
  3. Tight; under tension, as in a rope or bow string.
tidy
(Informal) Fairly good; satisfactory
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  1. (Informal) Fairly good; satisfactory
  2. Given to keeping things clean and in order:
  3. Orderly and clean in appearance:
trig
In good condition; strong; sound
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  1. In good condition; strong; sound
  2. Smart and trim, as in appearance; neat:
  3. Neat; tidy; trim; spruce; smart.
trim
Well-proportioned; smartly designed
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  1. Well-proportioned; smartly designed
  2. In good physical condition; fit; slim:
  3. Orderly; neat; tidy
well-groomed
Trim and tidy:
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  1. Trim and tidy:
  2. Clean and neat; carefully washed, combed, dressed, etc.
  3. Neat and tidy
tight
Stretched or drawn out fully:
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  1. Stretched or drawn out fully:
  2. Barely profitable:
  3. (Dial.) Snug; trim; neat
Find another word for spick-and-span. In this page you can discover 14 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for spick-and-span, like: neat, orderly, shipshape, snug, spruce, taut, tidy, trig, trim, well-groomed and tight.

Sentence Examples

  • He was indefatigable, in war as in peace, in parading and inspecting; the weary and starving soldiers were forced to turn out amid the marshes of the Dobrudscha as spick and span as on the parade grounds of St Petersburg; but he could do nothing to set order in the confusion of the commissariat, which caused the troops to die like flies of dysentery and scurvy; or to remedy the scandals of the hospitals, which inflicted on the wounded unspeakable sufferings.

  • All the doors were of stainless steel and the whole was kept spick and span by Terry and his cleaning squad.

  • The boundary wall at the rear has been rebuilt and the side railings look spick and span after a fresh coat of paint.

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