adjective
- Clean or organized.
- usage: "her neat dress"; "a neat room"
- synonyms: orderly
- Showing care in execution.
- usage: "neat homework"; "neat handwriting"
- Free from what is tawdry or unbecoming.
- usage: "a neat style"; "a neat set of rules"; "she hated to have her neat plans upset"
- Free from clumsiness; precisely or deftly executed.
- usage: "he landed a clean left on his opponent's cheek"; "a clean throw"; "the neat exactness of the surgeon's knife"
- synonyms: clean
- Very good.
- usage: "he did a bully job"; "a neat sports car"; "had a great time at the party"; "you look simply smashing"
- Without water.
- usage: "took his whiskey neat"
- synonyms: straight, full-strength
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