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Synonyms for nifty

  • adjective

Most common

neat dandy groovy corking

All synonyms

Adjective

neat, great, gurt UK, groovy, bang-up informal, dandy, not bad, old, corking, peachy, slap-up informal, keen, smashing, swell, cracking, bully

Definitions

  1. adj. 1

    Good, smart; useful or beneficial, often in an impressively clever way.

    a nifty trick for reducing your household energy bill

Example sentences

  • neat No one is so poor that he cannot afford to be neat.
  • dandy Not everything in Morocco is fine and dandy.
  • groovy I'm having a groovy time tonight.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
niftyrising
neatrising
dandyrising
groovyrising
corkingsteady

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

By length

3 letters
old1
4 letters
keen1, neat1, gurt
5 letters
great1, bully2, swell1, dandy2
6 letters
groovy2, peachy2
7 letters
corking2
8 letters
cracking2, smashing2

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

In other languages

Français
chouette
Deutsch
toll