spruced up

1. 1.

   dressed in fancy or formal clothing

   Synonymsdresseddressed-updressed to the ninesdressed to killdolled upspiffed uptogged up

   Similarclothed

Questions about spruced up

What does spruced up mean?

spruced up means "dressed in fancy or formal clothing".

What is another word for spruced up?

Close synonyms include dressed, dressed-up, dressed to the nines, dressed to kill, dolled 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 spruced up a common word?

spruced up is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.