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Neutral   /nˈutrəl/   Listen
Neutral

adjective
1.
Having no personal preference.  Synonym: impersonal.  "A neutral observer"
2.
Having only a limited ability to react chemically; chemically inactive.  Synonyms: indifferent, inert.  "An indifferent chemical in a reaction"
3.
Not supporting or favoring either side in a war, dispute, or contest.
4.
Possessing no distinctive quality or characteristics.
5.
Having no hue.  Synonym: achromatic.
6.
Lacking distinguishing quality or characteristics.
7.
Having no net electric charge.  Synonym: electroneutral.
noun
1.
One who does not side with any party in a war or dispute.



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"Neutral" Quotes from Famous Books



... she did not realize the pain she caused. While her own heart slept, she could not understand the aching disquiet of others that she toyed with. That it was good sport, high-spiced excitment, and occupation for her restless, active mind, was all she considered. As she would never be neutral in her moral character, so she was one who would do much of either harm or good. Familiarity with the insincerities of fashionable life had blurred her sense of truthfulness in little things, and in matters of policy she could hide her meaning or express another ...
— From Jest to Earnest • E. P. Roe
... looking at him. She perceived that there were some points upon which the priest did not desire to be understood. She held up one finger in its neutral-coloured cotton glove, and shook it slowly from ...
— The Isle of Unrest • Henry Seton Merriman
... case, where the dependent female adds to her neutral race-beauty the shifting attributes of sex-attraction, she has gained to a high degree in the field man most admires, and lost in the normal ...
— The Forerunner, Volume 1 (1909-1910) • Charlotte Perkins Gilman
... ends has been substituted a standard with marks, which permits much more precise definition and can be employed in optical processes of observation alone; that is, in processes which can produce in it no deformation and no alteration. Moreover, the marks are traced on the plane of the neutral fibres[2] exposed, and the invariability of their distance apart is thus assured, even when a change is made in the ...
— The New Physics and Its Evolution • Lucien Poincare
... Party, on the other; but the "Mugwumps," those Republicans who, with a self-conscious high-mindedness which irritated him almost beyond words, were supporting the Democratic nominee, he absolutely despised. Besides, it was not in him to be neutral in any fight. He admitted that freely. During the final weeks of the campaign he made numerous speeches in New York and elsewhere which were not ...
— Roosevelt in the Bad Lands • Hermann Hagedorn


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