Neutral
['njuːtr(ə)l] or ['nʊtrəl]
Definition
(noun.) one who does not side with any party in a war or dispute.
(adj.) having no net electric charge .
(adj.) lacking distinguishing quality or characteristics; 'a neutral personality that made no impression whatever' .
(adj.) not supporting or favoring either side in a war, dispute, or contest .
(adj.) possessing no distinctive quality or characteristics .
Typist: Louis--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Not engaged on either side; not taking part with or assisting either of two or more contending parties; neuter; indifferent.
(a.) Neither good nor bad; of medium quality; middling; not decided or pronounced.
(a.) Neuter. See Neuter, a., 3.
(a.) Having neither acid nor basic properties; unable to turn red litmus blue or blue litmus red; -- said of certain salts or other compounds. Contrasted with acid, and alkaline.
(n.) A person or a nation that takes no part in a contest between others; one who is neutral.
Checked by Jacques
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Indifferent, of neither party, taking no part with either side.
Checker: Seymour
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Uninterfering, impartial, indifferent, negative, unavowed
ANT:Partial, interested, interfering, active, positive, declared, avowed
Checker: Shelia
Definition
adj. being neuter indifferent: taking no part on either side: unbiassed: neither very good nor very bad of no decided character: having no decided colour bluish or grayish: (chem.) neither acid nor alkaline.—n. a person or nation that takes no part in a contest.—n. Neutralisā′tion.—v.t. Neu′tralise to declare by convention any nation permanently neutral or neutral during certain hostilities: to make inert: to render of no effect.—ns. Neu′traliser; Neutral′ity state of taking no part on either of two sides: those who are neutral.—adv. Neu′trally.—Neutral tint a dull grayish colour; Neutral vowel the vowel-sound heard in but firm her &c. and commonly in unaccented syllables.—Armed neutrality the condition of a neutral power ready to repel aggression from either belligerent.
Typist: Owen
Examples
- He had risen from his chair and was standing between the parted blinds gazing down into the dull neutral-tinted London street. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- I am to be neutral? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- So she went on in her neutral tone, as if she had been remarking on baby's robes. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- In this case the balance is preserved and the central wire remains neutral, as no return current flows through it to the source of energy. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- See that he's looked after, Rupert,' he added in a neutral voice. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- What is this by itself in a wood no longer green, no longer even russet, a wood neutral tint--this dark blue moving object? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I will remain neutral. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Rosamond looked mildly neutral as she said this, rising to ring the bell, and then crossing to her work-table. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- With nothing we are for and nothing to oppose, we are merely neutral. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- This strip between the ice barrier and the mountains is considered neutral ground. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- It was applied to a band of Tories who infested the neutral ground of Westchester County, New York, stealing cattle from both parties and doing other mischief. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Mr. Sedley was neutral. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Hence the neutral territory between two representative species is generally narrow in comparison with the territory proper to each. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- A relay thus wound is known as a differential relay--more generally called a neutral relay. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The solution has the characteristic property of neither acid nor base and is said to be neutral. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- For neutrals, it is indirect and dependent upon imagination. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
Typist: Vivienne