GROOMED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does groomed mean? 

• GROOMED (adjective)
  The adjective GROOMED has 1 sense:

1. neat and smart in appearance; well cared for

  Familiarity information: GROOMED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GROOMED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Neat and smart in appearance; well cared for

Context example:

his horse was always groomed

Similar:

brushed ((of hair or clothing) groomed with a brush)

kempt; tidy ((of hair) neat and tidy)

plastered; slicked ((of hair) made smooth by applying a sticky or glossy substance)

pomaded ((of hair) groomed with pomade)

sleek (well-groomed and neatly tailored; especially too well-groomed)

well-groomed (having your hair neatly brushed and combed)

well-dressed; well-groomed (having tasteful clothing and being scrupulously neat)

Also:

tidy (marked by order and cleanliness in appearance or habits)

Antonym:

ungroomed (not neat and smart in appearance)

 Context examples 

The man who entered was young, some two-and-twenty at the outside, well-groomed and trimly clad, with something of refinement and delicacy in his bearing.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Foolishly, in the past, he had conceived that all well-groomed persons above the working class were persons with power of intellect and vigor of beauty.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)