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ADJECTIVE neat COMPARATIVE neater SUPERLATIVE neatest

neat English

Meaning neat meaning

What does neat mean?

Definitions in simple English

neat Adjective

— If something is neat, it is clean and everything is in its place. Jim's room is very neat. He has nothing on the floor and all his clothes are hung up. — If something is neat, it is interesting. I'm fascinated by Bonnie's project on literature. It is really neat.

neat

— adjective clean or organized her neat dress a neat room — adjective showing care in execution neat homework neat handwriting — adjective free from what is tawdry or unbecoming a neat style a neat set of rules she hated to have her neat plans upset — adjective (= clean) free from clumsiness; precisely or deftly executed he landed a clean left on his opponent's cheek a clean throw the neat exactness of the surgeon's knife — adjective without water took his whiskey neat — adjective (= bully, great, smashing) very good he did a bully job a neat sports car had a great time at the party you look simply smashing

Synonyms neat synonyms

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neat English » English

tidy clean trim orderly smart spruce elegant pure clear pretty great cleanly nifty natty handsome well-groomed stylish straight graceful trig tasteful refined proper net good fine dapper clever terrific swell skilled precise pleasing harmonious even decent dandy dainty cool beautiful be clean accurate wonderful well-arranged undiluted uncluttered unadulterated trimmed thorough super

Topics neat topics

What do people use neat to talk about?

Social behavior Behavior Self-controlled

Tidy

What words describe someone who is tidy?

tidy neat orderly organized consistent house-proud
What words describe something that is tidy?

tidy immaculate just so neat shipshape smart trim well-kept

Physical actions Arrange

Organize

What words describe a person who organizes things well?

organized methodical neat together

Physical actions Arrange

Simple, complicated

What words describe something that is simple?

simple basic crude elemental elementary neat plain primitive rudimentary single uniform unsophisticated low-tech

Examples neat examples

How do I use neat in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Keep your room as neat as you can.

Hey, that's really neat.

He always keeps his room as neat as a pin.

She has very neat handwriting.

She is always neat and tidy.

The child looks as neat as a pin.

Little as Geppetto's house was, it was neat and comfortable.

Tom isn't neat.

Tom's very neat.

Tom is very neat.

Tom wasn't neat.

Tom is neat.

Tom is always neat and tidy.

Tom has very neat handwriting.

I'm neat.

I'm not neat.

Movie subtitles

Well, that's pretty neat!

Very neat.

Oh, it's very neat.

And you looked inside to be sure everything was neat and in order.

That's pretty neat, eh?

Nice work. Neat.

Not so neat after all.

So everything's neat as daisies.

Pretty neat.

You know, I think that's rather neat for a nobleman.

Hummm, neat bit of surgery that.

Rather a neat hole and squirting blood like a bilge pump.

Your hands are neat.

It's neat.

Neat way you have of tossing your customers out.

It's as neat a case for alienation of affection. as I've ever seen, and we slap it on tomorrow!

Snappy, says I. Nice and neat now, my man.

She's a neat piece from what I've seen of her. Very neat. That's all you think of, women.

All in a neat row.

And it wasn't dark and airless, it was very neat and clean.

Oh, just that chinning yourself on the moon isn't such a neat trick.

My uncle's awfully neat and fussy.

All in a neat row. And what do we get out of it?

Say, you want to look neat, makes a good impression on the jury.

I like to have things neat and orderly.

Be neat.

Must be neat.

You gotta be neat or I'll have to throw you out!

Saunders is neat and fussy, too.

They found what was left of a neat pile of shavings.

News and current affairs

It might seem from these numbers that Europe has figured out a neat trick: work little, work well.

Indeed, by today's standards, Galileo and Mendel committed fraud, since they likely massaged their data to fit a neat mathematical formula.

So a neat Shia-Sunni dividing line cannot be drawn.

Not only is it an arithmetically neat 100 years in the past, but it also looked like an attractive parallel.

Assuming he conducted them at all, they very probably did not produce the neat results that he used to assail his opponents.

Commodity bonds may offer a neat way to circumvent these risks.

A cap-and-trade system can seem like a neat market solution.

A commission set up by the League of Nations and headed by a Swedish diplomat crisscrossed the region in search of a fair solution, but ultimately failed to find a neat dividing line.

Armchair strategists in faraway countries are deluding themselves if they think attempts to impose neat new borders on these ancient lands would not founder against modern reality.

Tolerance has a face - the neat smiling figure of this son of Italian immigrants, who is easily accessible to the canton's citizens.

The neat divide based on income is muddled by the elderly.

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