Tidiers

Part of speech: noun, adjective

Definitions

1. A person or thing that organizes or cleans up a space
2. an individual responsible for making environments more orderly
3. someone who tidies up to enhance neatness and cleanliness

Etymology: "Tidiers" is simply the plural of "tidier," the comparative of "tidy," so the word inherits all the history of its base. "Tidy" began in Middle English as "tidy," meaning timely or seasonably, from "tide" in its older sense of time or season, and only later shifted toward the sense of neat and orderly. That is a notable turn: a word once about timing came to describe the state of a room. The comparative ending "-er" comes from Old English "-ere," which traces back through Proto-Germanic to Latin "-arius," a suffix forming agent nouns and adjectives. It passed into English partly through Old French "-ier," so the same ending that marks "tidier" also appears in words like "butcher" and "carpenter."

Synonyms: neater, cleaner, organizers

Antonyms: messier, sloppier