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Definition of Natty
1. Adjective. Marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners. "A jaunty red hat"
Similar to: Fashionable, Stylish
Derivative terms: Dapperness, Jauntiness, Nattiness, Rakishness, Spruceness
Definition of Natty
1. a. Neat; tidy; spruce.
Definition of Natty
1. Adjective. (informal) Smart and fashionable. ¹
2. Adjective. (Jamaican slang) knotty (e. g. natty dreadlocks) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Natty
1. neatly dressed [adj -TIER, -TIEST] : NATTILY [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Natty
Literary usage of Natty
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Gentleman's Magazine (1875)
"This your son—this my old friend natty ?" the young lady exclaimed. " Why, so it
is ! ... What am I to call you now—not natty any longer, I suppose ? ..."
2. The Metropolitan (1849)
"growled natty, lifting himself up with a sudden start, and towering above ...
"Oh, natty, as you hope for mercy, save that poor boy from that terrible man ..."
3. Heroes and Heroines of Fiction: Modern Prose and Poetry by William Shepard Walsh (1914)
"Bumppo, natty (ie, Nathaniel), Of all the children of hie brain. natty Bumppo is
the most universal favorite — and herein the popular judgment is assuredly ..."
4. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray, Timothy Holmes (1883)
"Inter-' natty, with the mucous membrane of the pharynx. Posteriorly, with the
mucous lining of the soft palate. This muscle must be removed and the ..."
5. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"attended.—PEABODY, WB 0., 1847, Taylor's Views Afoot in Europe, North American
Review, vol. 64, pp. 483, 484, 499. Then Bayard Taylor—protégé of natty, ..."
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