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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners; "a dapper young man"; "a jaunty red hat" [syn: dapper, dashing, jaunty, natty, raffish, rakish, spiffy, snappy, spruce]

Merriam Webster's

adjective (nattier; -est) Etymology: perhaps alteration of earlier netty, from obsolete net neat, clean Date: 1557 trimly neat and tidy ; smart <natty clothes> <a natty dresser> • nattily adverb • nattiness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. (nattier, nattiest) colloq. 1 a smartly or neatly dressed, dapper. b spruce; trim; smart (a natty blouse). 2 deft. Derivatives: nattily adv. nattiness n. Etymology: orig. sl., perh. rel. to NEAT(1)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Natty Nat"ty, a. [Cf. Neat clean.] Neat; tidy; spruce. [Colloq.] -- Nat"ti*ly, adv. -- Nat"ti*ness, n.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(nattier, nattiest) 1. If you describe clothes, especially men's clothes, as natty, you mean that they are smart and neat. (INFORMAL) ...a natty pin stripe suit... Cliff was a natty dresser. ADJ: usu ADJ n [approval] 2. If you describe something as natty, you think it is smart and cleverly designed. (INFORMAL) ...natty little houses. = nifty ADJ: usu ADJ n [approval]

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. (Colloq.) Neat, spruce, tidy, nice, fine, jaunty, trig, trim, finical, foppish, dandyish.

Moby Thesaurus

bandbox, braw, chic, classy, clothes-conscious, cosmopolitan, dapper, dashing, doggy, dressed to advantage, dressed to kill, elegant, exquisite, genteel, jaunty, neat, nifty, nobby, posh, recherche, ritzy, sassy, sharp, sleek, smart, smug, snazzy, soigne, soignee, sophisticated, spiffy, spruce, style-conscious, swank, swanky, swell, tricksy, trig, trim, well-dressed, well-groomed