neat
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
neat
adj 1: clean or organized; "her neat dress"; "a neat room" [syn:
{neat}, {orderly}]
2: showing care in execution; "neat homework"; "neat
handwriting"
3: free from what is tawdry or unbecoming; "a neat style"; "a
neat set of rules"; "she hated to have her neat plans upset"
[syn: {neat}, {refined}, {tasteful}]
4: 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" [syn:
{clean}, {neat}]
5: very good; "he did a bully job"; "a neat sports car"; "had a
great time at the party"; "you look simply smashing" [syn:
{bang-up}, {bully}, {corking}, {cracking}, {dandy}, {great},
{groovy}, {keen}, {neat}, {nifty}, {not bad(p)}, {peachy},
{slap-up}, {swell}, {smashing}]
6: without water; "took his whiskey neat" [syn: {neat},
{straight}, {full-strength}]
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Neat \Neat\ (n[=e]t), n. sing. & pl. [AS. ne['a]t; akin to OHG.
n[=o]z, Icel. naut, Sw. n["o]t, Dan. n["o]d, and to AS.
ne['o]tan to make use of, G. geniessen, Goth. niutan to have
a share in, have joy of, Lith. nauda use, profit.] (Zool.)
Cattle of the genus {Bos}, as distinguished from horses,
sheep, and goats; an animal of the genus {Bos}; as, a neat's
tongue; a neat's foot. --Chaucer.
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Wherein the herds[men] were keeping of their neat.
--Spenser.
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The steer, the heifer, and the calf
Are all called neat. --Shak.
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A neat and a sheep of his own. --Tusser.
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{Neat's-foot}, an oil obtained by boiling the feet of neat
cattle. It is used to render leather soft and pliable.
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from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Neat \Neat\, a. [Compar. {Neater}; superl. {Neatest}.] [OE.
nett, F. nett, fr. L. nitidus, fr. nitere to shine. Cf.
{Nitid}, {Net}, a., {Natty}.]
1. Free from that which soils, defiles, or disorders; clean;
cleanly; tidy.
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If you were to see her, you would wonder what poor
body it was that was so surprisingly neat and clean.
--Law.
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2. Free from what is unbecoming, inappropriate, or tawdry;
simple and becoming; pleasing with simplicity; tasteful;
chaste; as, a neat style; a neat dress.
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3. Free from admixture or adulteration; good of its kind; as,
neat brandy; to drink one's vodka neat. Hence: (Chem.)
Pure; undiluted; as, dissolved in neat acetone. "Our old
wine neat." --Chapman.
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4. Excellent in character, skill, or performance, etc.; nice;
finished; adroit; as, a neat design; a neat thief.
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5. With all deductions or allowances made; net.
Note: [In this sense usually written {net}. See {Net}, a.,
3.]
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{neat line} (Civil Engin.), a line to which work is to be
built or formed.
{Neat work}, work built or formed to neat lines.
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Syn: Nice; pure; cleanly; tidy; trim; spruce.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
256 Moby Thesaurus words for "neat":
Attic, Ciceronian, Daedalian, OK, Spartan, absolute, ace-high,
adept, adroit, all ataunto, anal, apt, artistic, ascetic, ataunt,
austere, authoritative, bad, bald, bang-up, bare, bonzer, boss,
bravura, braw, brilliant, bully, bungup and bilge-free, but good,
calligraphic, candid, capital, chaste, chic, chipper, clarified,
classic, classy, clean, clean-cut, clear, clever,
clothes-conscious, comely, common, commonplace, cool, coordinated,
copperplate, corking, cosmopolitan, crack, crackerjack, cunning,
cute, daedal, dandy, dapper, dashing, deft, delicious, dexterous,
dextrous, dinky, diplomatic, direct, distilled,
dressed to advantage, dressed to kill, dry, ducky, dull, easy,
efficient, elegant, excellent, exceptional, expert, exquisite, fab,
fancy, fastidious, fine, fine and dandy, finished, first-class,
frank, gear, genteel, good, goodish, graceful, gracile, grand,
great, groovy, handy, heavy, homely, homespun, hot, hunky-dory,
ingenious, jam-up, jaunty, just dandy, keen, lean, limpid, lucid,
magisterial, marvy, masterful, masterly, matter-of-fact, mean,
naked, natty, natural, nifty, no mean, nobby, okay, on the rocks,
open, orderly, organized, out of sight, peachy, peachy-keen,
pellucid, perspicuous, plain, plain-speaking, plain-spoken,
polished, politic, posh, precise, prim, professional, proficient,
prosaic, prosing, prosy, pure, purified, quick, quite some, ready,
recherche, rectified, refined, regular, resourceful, restrained,
ripping, ritzy, round, rum, rustic, scrumptious, severe, shapely,
sharp, sheer, shipshape, simple, simple-speaking, skillful,
slap-up, sleek, slick, smart, smashing, smug, snazzy, snug, sober,
soigne, soignee, solid, some, something else, sophisticated, spare,
spick and span, spiffing, spiffy, splendid, spruce, stark,
statesmanlike, straight, straightforward, stunning,
style-conscious, stylish, super, swank, swanky, swell, systematic,
tactful, tasteful, taut, terse, the compleat, the complete, tidy,
tight, top-hole, top-notch, topping, tough, tricksy, trig, trim,
unadorned, unadulterated, unaffected, unalloyed, unblended,
uncluttered, uncombined, uncomplicated, uncompounded, uncorrupted,
uncut, undiluted, unembellished, unfortified, unimaginative,
unlabored, unleavened, unmingled, unmixed, unornamented,
unpoetical, unsophisticated, untinged, unvarnished, virtuoso,
well-cared-for, well-done, well-dressed, well-favored, well-formed,
well-groomed, well-made, well-ordered, well-proportioned,
well-shaped, wizard, wonderful, workmanlike
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