well-kept
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++ˌwell-ˈkept adjective 1. TIDYa well-kept building or garden is very well cared for and looks neat and clean 〔建筑物或花园〕悉心照管的;整洁的► see thesaurus at tidy2. SECRETa well-kept secret is known only to a few people 〔秘密〕严守的
Examples from the Corpus
well-kept• Our old house, now covered with ivy, still looked pretty and well-kept.• I loved the orderliness of their little bungalow, and their well-kept garden.• The hotel has a new indoor pool leading directly on to the well-kept gardens with table tennis and sun-bathing lawns.• It was one of those large affairs sometimes known as colonial, with well-kept grounds stretching out in all directions.• Visitors should tour the palace, but don't forget the well-kept grounds -- well worth a visit.• Precisely what was said between them to prompt the scuffle remains a fairly well-kept secret, but conditions certainly were incendiary enough.• Her well-kept secret finally was revealed Tuesday.• The whereabouts of the horse hormone farms and the numbers of animals involved are extraordinarily well-kept secrets.• From its registration number it was only three years old, and it looked well-kept, the front tyres were new.ˌwell-ˈkept adjectiveChineseSyllable
cared a Corpus building or well for garden well-kept very is
See ldoce4337jpg for more
well-kept
ˌwell-ˈkept
adjective
1. a well-kept building or garden is very well cared for and looks neat and clean
2. a well-kept secret is known only to a few people
▪ tidy British English a place, room etc that is tidy looks nice because everything has been arranged and put in the right place: a tidy desk | I want to leave the place clean and tidy before we go.
▪neat use this about things that are carefully arranged in a way that is nice to look at: a neat pile of towels | The room was neat and tidy.
▪immaculate /ɪˈmækjələt, ɪˈmækjʊlət/ a place or thing that is immaculate is perfectly clean and neat – use this to emphasize how clean something looks: Our house was always immaculate.
▪well-kept a well-kept building or garden is very well cared for and looks neat and clean: a large house on well-kept grounds
▪orderly arranged or organized in a sensible or neat way: The room was orderly and uncluttered.
ˌwell-ˈkept
adjective1. a well-kept building or garden is very well cared for and looks neat and clean
2. a well-kept secret is known only to a few people
| THESAURUS |
▪
▪
▪
▪