spruce up

Questions about spruce up

What does spruce up mean?

spruce up means "make neat, smart, or trim". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for spruce up?

Close synonyms include spruce, titivate, tittivate, smarten up, slick up. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is spruce up a common word?

spruce up is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.