Meanings
comparative better-kept · comparative more well-kept · superlative best-kept · superlative most well-kept · alternative well kept
- neat, tidy, kept in good condition.
Halfway from Hellingly Station, the railway enters the well-kept hospital grounds, and runs parallel with a tree-lined drive about half a mile long.
1957 December 28, H. R. Stones, “The Hellingly Hospital Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 8711 more example
Budleigh Salterton, five miles from Exmouth, is another crossing station, and in common with most stations on the Devon branches it is clean and tidy, and has a well-kept garden.
1960 June, R. C. Riley, “The coastal branches of South-East Devon: Part Two”, in Trains Illustrated, page 337 - not told to anyone.
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivekept in good condition
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Czech úpravný, pěstěný
- úpravnýneat, tidy
- pěstěnýneat, tidy
- udržovanýneat, tidy
Danish velholdt, velbevaret
- velholdtneat, tidy
- velbevaretwell-kept secret
Norwegian Bokmål velholdt
- velholdtneat, tidy
Swahili nadhifu
- nadhifuneat, tidy
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