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Orderly vs Dapper - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between orderly and dapper

is that orderly is neat and tidy; possessing order while dapper is neat, trim.

As a noun orderly

is a hospital attendant given a variety of non-medical duties.

As an adverb orderly

is according to good order or practice; appropriately, in a well-behaved way.

orderly

English

(wikipedia orderly)

Alternative forms

* ordrely (obsolete)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Neat and tidy; possessing order.
    • He has always kept an orderly kitchen, with nothing out of place.
  • Methodical or systematic.
    • We live in an orderly universe, where rules govern both the movements of planets and the binding of molecules.
  • Peaceful; well-behaved.
    • An orderly gathering of citizens stood on the corner awaiting the bus.
  • Being on duty; keeping order; conveying orders.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
    • aids-de-camp and orderly men

    Derived terms

    * orderliness

    Noun

    (orderlies)
  • A hospital attendant given a variety of non-medical duties.
  • A soldier who carries out minor tasks for a superior officer.

    • Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • * Shakespeare
    • You are blunt; go to it orderly .
  • (obsolete) In order; in a particular order or succession; with a suitable arrangement.
  • *, II.12:
    • Thus orderly marshaled, they take their course and swim whither their journey tends, as broad and wide behind as before.
  • * 1624 , , Generall Historie , in Kupperman 1988, p.149:
    • And in the Tombe which is an arch made of mats, they lay them orderly .

    dapper

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Neat, trim.
  • * 1892 , , The Slave Of The Lamp :
    • This entrance is through a little courtyard, in which is the stable and coach-house combined, where Madame Perinere, a lady who paints the magic word "Modes" beneath her name on the door-post of number seventeen, keeps the dapper little cart and pony which carry her bonnets to the farthest corner of Paris.
  • Stylishly dressed, neatly dressed, spiffy.
  • * 1917 , , The Man With Two Left Feet :
    • Going down the street, you would meet a typical commercial traveller, dapper and alert.

    Derived terms

    * Dapper Dan

    Anagrams

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