Neat
[niːt] or [nit]
Definition
(adj.) without water; 'took his whiskey neat' .
(adj.) free from what is tawdry or unbecoming; 'a neat style'; 'a neat set of rules'; 'she hated to have her neat plans upset' .
(adj.) clean or organized; 'her neat dress'; 'a neat room' .
(adj.) showing care in execution; 'neat homework'; 'neat handwriting' .
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Definition
(n. sing. & pl.) Cattle of the genus Bos, as distinguished from horses, sheep, and goats; an animal of the genus Bos; as, a neat's tongue; a neat's foot.
(n.) Of or pertaining to the genus Bos, or to cattle of that genus; as, neat cattle.
(a.) Free from that which soils, defiles, or disorders; clean; cleanly; tidy.
(a.) Free from what is unbecoming, inappropriate, or tawdry; simple and becoming; pleasing with simplicity; tasteful; chaste; as, a neat style; a neat dress.
(a.) Free from admixture or adulteration; good of its kind; as, neat brandy.
(a.) Excellent in character, skill, or performance, etc.; nice; finished; adroit; as, a neat design; a neat thief.
(a.) With all deductions or allowances made; net. [In this sense usually written net. See Net, a., 3.]
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Clean, cleanly, unsoiled, tidy, spotless, unsullied, immaculate, unstained, pure.[2]. Nice, spruce, trim.[3]. Chaste, simple, in good taste.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See TIDY]
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Definition
adj. trim: tidy: clean: well-shaped: without mixture or adulteration: finished adroit clever skilful.—adj. Neat′-hand′ed dexterous.—adv. Neat′ly.—n. Neat′ness.
adj. belonging to the bovine genus.—n. black-cattle: an ox or cow.—ns. Neat′-herd one who herds or has the care of neat or cattle; Neat′-house a building for the shelter of neat-cattle.—Neat's-foot oil an oil obtained from the feet of oxen; Neat's leather leather made of the hides of neat-cattle.
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Examples
- He was always well dressed, very neat and plain, but his eyes were weak, just as mine are, and he wore tinted glasses against the glare. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- A small green court was the whole of its demesne in front; and a neat wicket gate admitted them into it. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- He took a neat little leather case out of a drawer, and opening it he exhibited a number of shining instruments. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Even then, I would have avoided the room where they all were, but for its being the neat-tiled kitchen I have mentioned more than once. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Lucy was a very neat, lady-like little creature, who used to wear very fine muslin gowns, ornamented with her own beautiful embroidery. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Not so heavy as they might be,' said the Jew, after looking at the insides carefully; 'but very neat and nicely made. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Step into this neat garden-house on the skirts of Whinbury, walk forward into the little parlour. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- When the coach stopped, a very neat lady looked up at the window and said, Miss Donny. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- These piles are perhaps three or four feet high, and are so neat and true that they appear to have been the work of a master mason. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- There, she said, it is not heavy, and will not shame your neat toilette, as if it were a household, servant-like detail. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- It's just neater. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Model one in putty or clay, you could not make a better or straighteror neater; and then, such classic lips and chin--and his bearing--sublime. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- And it was made neater by there really being two halls in the house, a front 'un and a back 'un, besides the servants'. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The copies and the original are neater than when water is used. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- You are a neater figure than the Marquis of Lorne; said I to Frederick, wishing to think so. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- And she pleased herself by writing in the fly-leaf in her neatest little hand, George Osborne, A Christmas gift from his affectionate mother. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- We took off our shoes and went into the marble mausoleum of the Sultan Mahmoud, the neatest piece of architecture, inside, that I have seen lately. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- From a girl she had the neatest ways, and was always good-hearted, and as open as the day. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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