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Synonyms for groovy

  • adjective

Most common

wonderful hip neat fashionable swagger

All synonyms

Adjective

1. Nifty

trendy informal, neat, great, gurt UK, wonderful, hip, bang-up informal, fashionable, glorious, old, dandy, peachy, not bad, smashing, keen, swell, corking, slap-up informal, cracking, bully, nifty informal dated

Other

wicked, swagger

Antonyms

rinky-dink

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Definitions

  1. adj. 1

    Of, pertaining to, or having grooves.

    The back of the tile was groovy so that it could hold the adhesive compound.

Example sentences

  • wonderful The music we listened to last night was wonderful.
  • hip Tom slipped on ice and broke his hip last winter.
  • neat No one is so poor that he cannot afford to be neat.
  • fashionable Libertarianism is fashionable in tech bro circles.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
groovyrising
wonderfulrising
hiprising
neatrising
fashionablesteady
swaggerrising

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

3 letters
old1, hip1
4 letters
keen1, neat1, gurt
5 letters
great1, bully2, swell1, dandy2, nifty2
6 letters
wicked2, trendy2, peachy2
7 letters
swagger2, corking2
8 letters
glorious3, cracking2, smashing2
9 letters
wonderful3
11 letters
fashionable4

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (bully2 = 2 syllables).