titivate

Questions about titivate

What does titivate mean?

titivate means "make neat, smart, or trim".

How many syllables are in titivate?

titivate has 3 syllables and divides as ti-ti-vate under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for titivate?

Close synonyms include spruce up, spruce, 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 titivate a common word?

titivate 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.