neat
/ˈniːt/ adjetivo B2En español: derecho, paja
- 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.
Comparativo neater · Superlativo 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.
Our eyes fell upon a mass of rusted machinery, great rolls of paper, a litter of bottles, and, neatly arranged upon a small table, a number of neat little bundles.
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