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spruce

/spɹuːs/noun, verb, adjective1 syllable

Spruce means: marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners.

Synonyms for spruce19

verb, as in make neat, smart, or trim

spruce up, titivate, tittivate, smarten up, slick up, spiff up

verb, as in dress and groom with particular care, as for a special occasion

spruce up, slick up, smarten up

adjective, as in marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners

dapper, dashing, jaunty, natty, raffish, rakish, spiffy, snappy, fashionable, stylish

also used for spruce

pulchritudinous, prettify, neaten

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What does spruce mean?5

adjective

1

marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners“a dapper young man”

verb

1

make neat, smart, or trim“Spruce up your house for Spring”

2

dress and groom with particular care, as for a special occasion“He spruced up for the party”

noun

1

light soft moderately strong wood of spruce trees; used especially for timbers and millwork

2

any coniferous tree of the genus Picea

Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What rhymes with spruce?24

one syllable

useloosejuicebrucegoosemoosezeustrucelucenousnoosemousse

two syllables

producereduceabuseexcuseinducereusediffuseseduceobtusededuce

three syllables

introducereproduce
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Spruce in a sentence

  • The fir, the spruce and the pine are all conifers.tinowls
  • Young trees were planted in the park: linden, maple, spruce and juniper.AlanF_US
  • I used those flowers to spruce up the house.rafaeld4
  • The neverlur is a trumpet made from spruce covered in birch bark.Hybrid
  • Claudio went to a forest full of spruce trees.Amastan
  • Claudio started chopping away at the trunk of the spruce tree.Amastan
  • Claudio dragged the spruce tree to his truck.Amastan
  • Claudio sat down on the trunk of the spruce tree.Amastan

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Forms of spruce

as a noun

plural
spruces

as a verb

past tense
spruced
present participle
sprucing
third-person singular
spruces
past participle
spruced

as a adjective

comparative
sprucer
superlative
sprucest