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neat

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[neet]

adjective

neater, neatest 
  1. in a pleasingly orderly and clean condition.

    a neat room.

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  2. habitually orderly and clean in appearance or habits.

    a neat person.

  3. of a simple, pleasing appearance, style, design, etc..

    a neat cottage.

  4. cleverly effective in character or execution: a neat solution.

    a neat scheme;

    a neat solution.

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  5. Slang.great; excellent; fine.

    What a neat car!

  6. clever, dexterous, or apt.

    She gave a neat characterization of the old woman.

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  7. (of liquid, especially liquor) straight.

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  8. Building Trades.

    1. (of cement) without sand or other aggregate.

    2. (of plaster) without any admixture except hair or fiber.

  9. net.

    neat profits.



adverb

  1. Informal.neatly.

neat

2

[neet]

noun

plural

neat 
  1. an animal of the genus Bos; a bovine, as a cow or ox.

neat

1

/ Ծː /

adjective

  1. clean, tidy, and orderly

  2. liking or insisting on order and cleanliness; fastidious

  3. smoothly or competently done; efficient

    a neat job

  4. pat or slick

    his excuse was suspiciously neat

  5. (of alcoholic drinks) without added water, lemonade, etc; undiluted

  6. a less common word for net 2

    neat profits

  7. slanggood; pleasing; admirable

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

neat

2

/ Ծː /

noun

  1. archaica domestic bovine animal

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • neatly adverb
  • neatness noun
  • ˈԱ𲹳ٱ adverb
  • ˈԱ𲹳ٲԱ noun
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of neat1

First recorded in 1300–50; Middle English net “spruce, trim, clean,” from Middle French, from Latin nitidus “shining, polished, handsome, spruce,” equivalent to Ծ(ŧ) “to shine” + -idus adjective suffix; -id 4

Origin of neat2

First recorded before 900; Middle English net, nete, nette, Old English ŧ, cognate with Old Norse naut, Middle Dutch noot; akin to Old English ŧdzٲ “to use, possess”
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of neat1

C16: from Old French net, from Latin nitidus clean, shining, from Ծŧ to shine; related to Middle Irish niam beauty, brightness, Old Persian naiba- beautiful

Origin of neat2

Old English neat
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Example Sentences

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Each front lawn is neat, each hedgerow well-kept.

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Song resists the urge to deliver her characters in neat, palatable packages.

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They are deployed for pauses and interruptions in speech; they precede bursts of exposition, neat summings-up and lengthy tangents.

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You’re kind of afraid that it’s Americans coming in and trying to tie up the Troubles into a neat little bow and go, ‘We solved it!’

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As a capper, right when Eve starts to drive away, there’s a neat crane move with a motivation I don’t want to spoil.

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