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[ US /ˈnit/ ]
[ UK /nˈiːt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. (of an alcoholic drink) without water
    took his whiskey neat
  2. superficially impressive, but lacking depth and attention to the true complexities of a subject
    too facile a solution for so complex a problem
    it was a neat plan, but bound to fail
    a slick advertising campaign
  3. showing care in execution
    neat handwriting
    neat homework
  4. clean or organized
    her neat dress
    a neat room
  5. very good
    you look simply smashing
    we had a grand old time
    a neat sports car
    had a great time at the party
    he did a bully job
  6. free from clumsiness; precisely or deftly executed
    he landed a clean left on his opponent's cheek
    the neat exactness of the surgeon's knife
    a clean throw

How To Use neat In A Sentence

  • In the receding angle below the chin is the hyoid bone, and the finger can be carried along the bone to the tip of the greater cornu, which is on a level with the angle of the mandible: the greater cornu is most readily appreciated by making pressure on one side, when the cornu of the opposite side will be rendered prominent and can be felt distinctly beneath the skin. XII. Surface Anatomy and Surface Markings. 1. Surface Anatomy of the Head and Neck
  • For verrucae and warts place a drop of neat Tea Tree Essential Oil in the centre and cover with a plaster once a day, this procedure can take a couple of weeks before you will see the results.
  • The aerobrake - a huge, convex disc underneath the spacecraft - was producing friction with the Martian atmosphere.
  • Many scientists think that hotspots mark locations where diapiric convection cells, called mantle ‘plumes’, rise beneath lithospheric plates.
  • In 1883 Mr. Leaf wrote: "I take it that the _zoma_ means the waist of the cuirass which is covered by the _zoster_, and has the upper edge of the _mitrê_ or plated apron beneath it fastened round the warrior's body. ... Homer and His Age
  • And when he knelt he found her squatting, in the far corner underneath, and in the slatted dark, saw only her eyes, wide and white. Gabbie Zombie
  • Armantrout's short lines, use of rhetoric, aggressive lineation, disjunctions and juxtapositions, discursiveness, parataxis, and myriad condensatory techniques are all exemplary, but never overbearing. Seth Abramson: November 2011 Contemporary Poetry Reviews
  • Subtitling is managed both neatly and completely, except in the concerted passages.
  • Espion subscribers also get neat features like text messaging, and can receive promotional messages offering them shopping discounts and club invites.
  • It was as if, in some strange way, it was beneath his dignity to take an interest in her.
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