neat
/ˈniːt/ adjective B2- Clean, tidy; free from dirt or impurities. · My room is neat because I tidied it this morning. She has very neat hair.
- Free from contaminants or impurities, unadulterated.
- At full strength, free from dilution (usually with water), undiluted
- Neither straight up nor on the rocks · I like my whisky neat, so you have no need for ice at all.
- Conditions with a liquid reagent or gas performed with no standard solvent or cosolvent. · The Arbuzov reaction is performed by adding the bromide to the phosphite, neat. The molecular beam was neat acetylene.
- Having a simple elegance or style; clean, trim, tidy, tasteful. · The front room was neat and carefully arranged for the guests.
- Well-executed or delivered; clever, skillful, precise. · Having the two protagonists meet in the last act was a particularly neat touch.
- Facile; missing complexity or details in the favor of convenience or simplicity. · Courts should not reduce this case to a neat set of legal rules.
Comparative neater · Superlative neatest
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It looks very neat on a black coat buttoned up.”
There were neat fences at the sides of the road, painted a dainty blue color, and beyond them were fields of grain and vegetables in abundance.
He was conducted to a tolerably neat chamber, but grated and barred, and its appearance, therefore, did not greatly alarm him; besides, the words of Villefort, who seemed to interest himself so much, resounded still in his ears like a promise of freedom.
It was in this costume, and bringing back to Jacopo the shirt and trousers he had lent him, that Edmond reappeared before the captain of the lugger, who had made him tell his story over and over again before he could believe him, or recognize in the neat and trim sailor the man with thick and matted beard, hair tangled with seaweed, and body soaking in seabrine, whom he had picked up naked and nearly drowned.
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