Neat

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Orderly and clean; tidy.
  • adj. Orderly and precise in procedure; systematic.
  • adj. Marked by ingenuity and skill; adroit: a neat turn of phrase.
  • adj. Not diluted or mixed with other substances: neat whiskey.
  • adj. Left after all deductions; net: neat profit.
  • adj. Slang Wonderful; terrific: That was a neat party.
  • n. Archaic A cow or other domestic bovine animal.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A bull or cow.
  • n. Cattle collectively.
  • adj. Clean, tidy; free from dirt or impurities.
  • adj. Free from contaminants; unadulterated, undiluted. Particularly of liquor and cocktails; see usage below.
  • adj. Conditions with a liquid reagent or gas performed with no standard solvent or cosolvent
  • adj. With all deductions or allowances made; net.
  • adj. Having a simple elegance or style; clean, trim, tidy, tasteful.
  • adj. Well-executed or delivered; clever, skilful, precise.
  • adj. Good, excellent, desirable.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Cattle of the genus Bos, as distinguished from horses, sheep, and goats; an animal of the genus Bos
  • adj. Of or pertaining to the genus Bos, or to cattle of that genus.
  • adj. Free from that which soils, defiles, or disorders; clean; cleanly; tidy.
  • adj. Free from what is unbecoming, inappropriate, or tawdry; simple and becoming; pleasing with simplicity; tasteful; chaste
  • adj. Free from admixture or adulteration; good of its kind.
  • adj. Excellent in character, skill, or performance, etc.; nice; finished; adroit
  • adj. With all deductions or allowances made; net. [In this sense usually written net. See Net, a., 3.]
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Cattle of the bovine genus, as bulls, oxen, and cows: used collectively.
  • n. A single bovine animal.
  • Being or relating to animals of the ox kind: as, neat cattle.
  • Clear; pure; unmixed; undiluted; unadulterated: as, a glass of brandy neat.
  • Clear of any extraneous matter; clear of the cask, case, wrapper, etc.; with all deductions made: as, neat weight.
  • Free from what is undesirable, offensive, unbecoming, or in bad taste; pleasing; nice.
  • Characterized by nicety of appearance, construction, arrangement, etc.; nice; hence, orderly; trim; tidy; often, specifically, clean; as, a neat box; the apartment was always very neat; neat in one's dress.
  • Well-shaped or well-proportioned; cleancut: as, a neat foot and ankle.
  • Complete in character, skill, etc.; exact; finished; adroit; clever; skilful: applied to persons or things.
  • Spruce; finical; over-nice.
  • A commendatory word, used somewhat vaguely.
  • Synonyms Clean, cleanly, unsoiled.
  • Neatly.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. free from what is tawdry or unbecoming
  • adj. without water
  • adj. clean or organized
  • adj. showing care in execution
  • adj. free from clumsiness; precisely or deftly executed
  • adj. very good
  • Equivalent
    elegant    undiluted    tidy    adroit    good   
    Antonym
    Cross Reference
    Variant
    net   
    Form
    neatherd   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    pure    spruce    tidy    cleanly    nice    trim    clean    tasteful    chaste    finished   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Crete    Deet    Delete    Fleet    Grete    Marguerite    Pete    Piet    Seat    Skeat   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    nice    elegant    clean    smooth    precise    decent    straight up    straight    up