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Neat

adjective
1.
Clean or organized.  Synonym: orderly.  "A neat room"
2.
Showing care in execution.  "Neat handwriting"
3.
Free from what is tawdry or unbecoming.  Synonyms: refined, tasteful.  "A neat set of rules" , "She hated to have her neat plans upset"
4.
Free from clumsiness; precisely or deftly executed.  Synonym: clean.  "A clean throw" , "The neat exactness of the surgeon's knife"
5.
Very good.  Synonyms: bang-up, bully, corking, cracking, dandy, great, groovy, keen, nifty, not bad, peachy, slap-up, smashing, swell.  "A neat sports car" , "Had a great time at the party" , "You look simply smashing"
6.
Without water.  Synonyms: full-strength, straight.



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"Neat" Quotes from Famous Books



... Christmas dinners that are hurrying in every direction, he is so abstracted as to find a sucking-pig in his stomach, and not a little gravy spilt upon his trowsers, compelling him to change them, upon his arrival at home, for a neat pair ...
— Christmas Comes but Once A Year - Showing What Mr. Brown Did, Thought, and Intended to Do, - during that Festive Season. • Luke Limner
... it is so apt, I should quote Horace, and say, 'Omnibus hoc vitium est.' There is no 'bus unseized by the Napoleonic Lipton. Do not ascend one of them supposing for a moment that by paying fourpence and going to the very end of the route you will come to a neat tea station, where you will be served with the cheering cup. Never; nor with a draught of Cadbury's cocoa or Nestle's milk, although you have jostled along for nine weary miles in company with their blatant recommendations to drink nothing else, and though you ...
— Penelope's English Experiences • Kate Douglas Wiggin
... of the tranquilizing order are grouped in this neat little book for the pleasure of little people and the relief of ...
— Dorothy Dainty at Glenmore • Amy Brooks
... is raised, excellent to the eyes of warfaring men, is its strength and symmetry admired. It is the work of years. Its neat embrasures, its finished parapets, its casemated stories show all the skill of modern science. But, anon, a small spark is applied to the treacherous fusee—a cloud of dust arises to the heavens—and then nothing is to be seen but dirt and dust ...
— Barchester Towers • Anthony Trollope
... singing a neat thing by LONGFELLOW about the Evening Star, and seemed to experience the most remarkable psychological effects from Mr. BUMSTEAD'S wooden variations and extraordinary stare at the lower part of her countenance. Thus, she twitched her plump shoulders ...
— Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 14, July 2, 1870 • Various


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