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Synonyms for natty

  • adjective

Most common

well-dressed chic dapper jaunty natural

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Adjective

1. Dapper

dapper, jaunty, chic, spiffy informal, well-dressed, spruce, snappy, neat, stylish, dashing, well-tailored, fashionable, rakish, trim, trig, raffish, trendy informal, snazzy slang

Other

natural, done

Antonyms

rinky-dink

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Definitions

  1. adj. 1

    Smart and fashionable.

Related words

Other spellings
nattie

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Natty, Dapper, Spruce or Neat?

Dapper is spruce with the suggestion of smallness and slightness; natty, a diminutive of neat, suggests minute elegance, with a tendency toward the exquisite; as, a dapper little fellow in a natty business suit.

J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)

Example sentences

  • chic What have you got against woodchip wallpaper? It looks chic!
  • dapper He was a dapper man with a mustache that curled neatly at each tip.
  • jaunty Tom wore his hat at a jaunty angle.
  • natural Natural food is not always good for our digestion.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
nattyrising
chicrising
dapperrising
jauntyrising
naturalsteady

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

By length

4 letters
done1, neat1, trim1, chic1, trig1
6 letters
trendy2, spruce1, snappy2, dapper2, snazzy2, jaunty2, spiffy2, rakish2
7 letters
natural3, stylish2, dashing2, raffish2
11 letters
fashionable4

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (trendy2 = 2 syllables).