Meanings
KonMari1
present singular third person KonMaris · participle present KonMari-ing · participle past KonMaried · past KonMaried · participle past KonMari'd · past KonMari'd · alternative Konmari
- transitiveTo apply Marie Kondo's KonMari method of organizing to (something).
Marie Kondo, a.k.a. the queen of tidying up, is back at it with another book to help us all get our lives together. (Remember when she helped Cosmo editors KonMari their makeup bags?)
2019 December 16, Jasmine Ting, “15 Books You Absolutely Need to Add to Your Reading List in 2020”, in Cosmopolitan2 more examples
Another woman said she KonMaried a bad boyfriend. Having tidied everything in her home and finding she still distinctly lacked happiness, she held her boyfriend in her hands, realized he no longer sparked joy and got rid of him.
2016 July 6, Taffy Brodesser-Akner, “Marie Kondo and the Ruthless War on Stuff”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 06 Jul 2016The metric of objects only “sparking joy” is deeply problematic when applied to books. The definition of joy (for the many people yelling at me on Twitter, who appear to have Konmari’d their dictionaries) is: “A feeling of great pleasure and happiness, a thing that causes joy, success or satisfaction.”
2019 January 7, Anakana Schofield, “What we gain from keeping books – and why it doesn’t need to be ‘joy’”, in The Guardian
Konmari2
present singular third person Konmaris · participle present Konmari-ing · participle past Konmaried · past Konmaried · participle past Konmari'd · past Konmari'd
- alternativeAlternative form of KonMari.
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KonMari. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/KonMari
“KonMari.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/KonMari. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “KonMari,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/KonMari.
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