spruce
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
light soft moderately strong wood of spruce trees; used especially for timbers and millwork
Types & categories
- wood hypernym
Parts & wholes
- spruce substance holonym
Sense 2 verb
make neat, smart, or trim
Spruce up your house for Spring
Types & categories
- fancify hypernym
Related & opposite
- titivation derivation
Sense 3 adjective
marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners
a dapper young man
Related & opposite
- jauntiness derivation
- neatness derivation
- fashionable similar to
Sense 4 noun
any coniferous tree of the genus Picea
Types & categories
- conifer hypernym
- Norway spruce hyponym
- weeping spruce hyponym
- Engelmann spruce hyponym
- white spruce hyponym
- black spruce hyponym
- Siberian spruce hyponym
- Sitka spruce hyponym
- oriental spruce hyponym
- Colorado spruce hyponym
- red spruce hyponym
Parts & wholes
Sense 5 verb
dress and groom with particular care, as for a special occasion
He spruced up for the party
Types & categories
- neaten hypernym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | substance holonym | Parts & wholes | spruce |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | wood |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | titivation |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | fancify |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | jauntiness |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | neatness |
| 3 | similar to | Related & opposite | fashionable |
| 4 | member holonym | Parts & wholes | Picea |
| 4 | substance meronym | Parts & wholes | spruce |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | conifer |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | Norway spruce |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | weeping spruce |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | Engelmann spruce |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | white spruce |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | black spruce |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | Siberian spruce |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | Sitka spruce |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | oriental spruce |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | Colorado spruce |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | red spruce |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | neaten |