Word Type

Noun

Verb

The word "grooming" can be used as noun and verb.

Word Relationships

Causes

appearance will improve beauty bonding with animal companion cleanliness dog will silky drop comb dry skin to flake off ego building fixing hair furr loss get goofus to look like gallant improved looks injury late looking better looking good looking neater looking pretty loose dog hair all over mistakes neater appearance neatness one to late to work others admire pleasant appearance positive removal of loose fur satisfaction smell nice static tardiness

Coordinate Terms

personal hygiene

Derived Terms

allogrooming autogrooming cybergrooming hypergrooming nongrooming snow grooming

Inflected/Variant Forms

groom

Prerequisites

bathroom brush brush or comb comb comb or brush groom hair mirror moustache wax personality style time

Subevents

applying deodorant brush hair brushing hair brushing teeth cat will scratch collecting loose hair comb breaks comb hair find tumor fix hair lok in mirror look better at end look in mirror loss of hair paedophillia removing lice smiling in mirror

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

activity covering

Type Of (IsA)

performing progressing

Related Terms

groom minor

Similar Terms

personal hygiene

Synonym Network

coaching curry dressing training

Used For

attracting females attracting mates attracting potential mates chimpanzees cleaning oneself dogs establishing group hierarchy good health good hygene keeping clean keeping one clean keeping pet clean looking and feeling clean looking best looking good looking nice making yourself look good marc riccio paying attention to ones appearance personal hygiene removing parasites social bonding taking care of ones body winning medals

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.