Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Neat, trim, and smart; dapper.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Neat; tidy; spruce.
Wiktionary
- adj. informal Smart and fashionable.
- adj. knotty (e. g. natty dreadlocks)
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. colloq. Neatly dressed; smart; trim; tidy; spruce.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners
Etymologies
- Perhaps variant of obsolete netty, from net, elegant, from Middle English, from Old French; see neat1. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Broward, not usually known as a natty dresser, sauntered up in a linen suit the color of new butter and proceeded to lambaste Davis for his alliance with “land pirates and purchased newspapers.””
“Interestingly, I thought "natty" meant the exact opposite of what it does.”
“Saddam begins earnestly, from his position behind his desk, looking kind of natty in a light grey double breasted jacket and a white Panama hat with a black hat band, "This will take away some of the son's love for the father.”
“It may easily be made longer, if desired, but the model is an excellent one for ordinary wear, and very "natty," and it has the merit of being quickly knitted.”
“The leading man wore a "natty" outing-suit, and strutted with a little cane; his stock-in-trade was a jaunty air, a kind of perpetual flourish, and a wink that suggested the cunning of a satyr.”
“This could hardly be wondered at, for taking into consideration the "natty" appearance of the privateer, the lubberly way in which she was sailed, standing so far off wind when she ought to have been close to it if she were sailing her course, was enough to excite anybody's suspicions.”
“But it's not all jah and irie in the scene, and too many reggae shows in town seem to be imbued with a spirit I can only describe as "Eugene-y," stressing the line between "natty" and "hippie.”
“If "natty" somehow means something positive, then god (sic) has a special plan for you.”
“If you see any pics of the Wehrmact invading Poland, you'll see various tank commanders having this kind of natty headgear!”
“The only drawback about the M-Kard was that it looked like the kind of natty receptacle a flash bastard such as himself might plausibly port his Charlie around in, which was something you unfortunately had to consider when observing this nascent twenty-first-century dining protocol.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘natty’.
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
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abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 more...
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letters starting with n
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rastafari
dem woodz assoseeated wit da reegae mon..
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gross.
sybarite, restiveness, churl, nepotism, jingoism, pusillanimous, gaffe, incisive, enervate, bucolic, concomitant, abeyance and 158 more...
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inkhorn, aplomb, apotheosis, asinine, avatar, bombastic, boorish, bromide, bucolic, cagey, canvass, digress and 991 more...
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nefarious, edifice, malevolent, ostensible, folderol, bauble, livid, amnesty, calculus, saddlery, maisonette, cuisse and 423 more...
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edes's Words
table talk, tuneful, bestrewn, determinate fashion, unpretending, personage, duly impressed, shirring, caw, hatchet job, gummy, comely and 225 more...
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template, modal, sublingual, tandem, polycentric, septuagenarian, token, irrevocable, denotive, augural, aberrant, phlebotomy and 1188 more...
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fetid, mezzanine, hiatus, austerity, subliminal, resplendent, implacable, impugn, debase, exiguous, cirque, holster and 2538 more...
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GRE
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industrious, feckless, debunk, quintessence, loquacious, obsequious, laconic, plethora, lugubrious, serendipity, facetious, turgid and 261 more...
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abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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ineluctable, prelapsarian, bien pensant, prospero, preternatural, gratifying, iconoclast, cineast, persnickety, tumescent, galvanize, pap and 887 more...
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Assuage, abject, adjure, ancillary, aegis, augur, avocation, betoken, blase, bode, canon, cavort and 79 more...
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diplopic, dolorous, farrago, surety, scuttlebutt, Arabesque, infarct, neurasthenia, lambent, expurge, univocal, simper and 395 more...
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