Spruce

Quick meaning: Spruce is a noun meaning (uncountable) The wood of a spruce.

Meaning

(uncountable) The wood of a spruce.

More Meanings

1. (used attributively) Made of the wood of the spruce.
2. (comparable) Smart, trim, and elegant in appearance; fastidious (said of a person).
3. (usually with up) To arrange neatly; tidy up.
4. (ambitransitive, usually with up) To make oneself spruce (neat and elegant in appearance).
5. To tease.
6. Any of various large coniferous evergreen trees or shrubs from the genus Picea, found in northern temperate and boreal regions; originally and more fully spruce fir.
7. (obsolete) Prussian leather; pruce.

Example Sentences

That spruce table is beautiful!

The two clean rooms, where chips are made, are sprucer than a hospital theatre.

A spruce young lieutenant came over, saluted and clambered into the back of our jeep, and we were off.

He had great neatness of person, and he continued to wear his spruce black coat and his bowler hat, always a little too small for him, in a dapper, jaunty manner.

Word Forms

• spruces
• sprucer
• sprucest
• sprucing
• spruced

Synonyms for spruce

Depending on context, synonyms include pulchritudinous, prettify, neaten, titivate, rakish, smart.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include smart, titivate, tittivate, natty, fashionable, dashing.

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