spiffier; spiffiest
: fine looking : smart
a spiffy sports jacket
spiffily adverb
spiffiness noun

Examples of spiffy in a Sentence

She looked very spiffy in her new dress.
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The ideas of Solar Power — laconic pacing, a quest for inner peace fed through late ’90s and early-aughts folk-pop and alternative-dance filters — are not absent, but the execution is spiffier. Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 27 June 2025 Where are the best restaurants, both cheap and spiffy? Lisa Vernon Sparks, Charlotte Observer, 9 June 2025 The spiffy new high-speed train, Al Boraq, can also shuttle travelers up and down the country. Mark Ellwood, AFAR Media, 26 May 2025 But Jon Favreau directed an impressive, imaginative remake in 2016, making spiffy use of CGI in order to make the story's anthropomorphic animals a little more lifelike. Kevin Jacobsen, EW.com, 10 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for spiffy

Word History

First Known Use

1853, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of spiffy was in 1853

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“Spiffy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/spiffy. Accessed 12 Jul. 2025.

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spiffy

adjective
spiffier; spiffiest
: fine looking : smart
a spiffy sports jacket

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