spruce

Speech parts

1. spruce - Noun

2. spruce - Adjective

3. spruce - Verb

4. spruce - Adjective Satellite

5. Spruce - Proper noun

Meaning

Any coniferous tree of the genus Picea, as the Norway spruce (P. excelsa), and the white and black spruces of America (P. alba and P. nigra), besides several others in the far Northwest. See Picea.

The wood or timber of the spruce tree.

Prussia leather; pruce.

Neat, without elegance or dignity; -- formerly applied to things with a serious meaning; now chiefly applied to persons.

Sprightly; dashing.

To dress with affected neatness; to trim; to make spruce.

To dress one's self with affected neatness; as, to spruce up.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

dapper trim neat immaculate natty fir smart elegant dashing tidy jaunty snappy rakish spiffy raffish
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Antonyms

dowdy scruff scrubby mucky askew confused
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Hypernyms

plant conifer wood groom beautify embellish

Hyponyms

Sitka spruce Norway spruce Engelmann spruce Siberian spruce silver spruce Colorado blue spruce

Phrases with the word

Serbian spruce Jezo spruce Ezo spruce Yezo spruce yellow spruce canadian spruce

Derivatives

spruced sprucing

Anagrams

cusper

Examples

The white spruce forest along the banks is most inspiring, magnificent here. Down the terraced slopes and right to the water's edge on the alluvial soil it stands in ranks. Ernest Thompson Seton

The full moon rises. The fog clings to the lowest branches of the spruce trees. The man steps out of the darkest corner of the forest and finds himself transformed into... A monkey? I think not. Garth Stein

I never met a man who was shaken by a field of identical blades of grass. An acre of poppies and a forest of spruce boggle no one's mind. Annie Dillard

When I'm in the classical world, I really treat it as exactly classical and I don't try and spruce it up or jazz it up or make it easier for the masses. Rufus Wainwright

I love the scents of winter! For me, it's all about the feeling you get when you smell pumpkin spice, cinnamon, nutmeg, gingerbread and spruce. Taylor Swift

a dapper young man Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

Sprowl SPRT Sprucan spruce aphid spruce bark spruce bark beetle