shipshape

ship·shape

adj \ˌship-ˈshāp, ˈship-ˌ\

Definition of SHIPSHAPE

: trim, tidy

Examples of SHIPSHAPE

1. I like to keep my car shipshape.
2. Everything had to be shipshape before we could sell the house.

Origin of SHIPSHAPE

short for earlier shipshapen, from ship + shapen, archaic past participle of shape

First Known Use: 1769

Related to SHIPSHAPE

Synonyms: antiseptic, bandbox, crisp, groomed, kempt, orderly, picked up, prim, neat, smug, snug, tidied, tidy, trig, trim, uncluttered, well-groomed

Antonyms: disheveled (or dishevelled), disordered, disorderly, messy, mussed, mussy, sloven, slovenly, unkempt, untidy

Related Words: dapper, natty, saucy, smart, spiffy, spruce; immaculate, spick-and-span (or spic-and-span), spotless; rakish, sleek, streamlined, taut; organized, straight, systematic

Near Antonyms: scruffy, seedy, shabby, slipshod, sloppy; dirty, filthy, foul, nasty, sordid, squalid; dowdy, frowsy (or frowzy), rumpled, tousled, tumbled; disorganized, unsystematic

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Rhymes with SHIPSHAPE

broomrape, cloudscape, date rape, escape, fox grape, gang rape, great ape, landscape, man ape, moonscape, North Cape, red tape, reshape, sea grape, seascape, snowscape, streetscape, take shape, townscape, transshape, undrape, waveshape