Definition of neat

"neat" in the adjective sense

1. neat, orderly

clean or organized

"her neat dress"

"a neat room"

2. neat

showing care in execution

"neat homework"

"neat handwriting"

3. clean, neat

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"

4. facile, neat, slick

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"

5. bang-up, bully, corking, cracking, dandy, great, groovy, keen, neat, nifty, not bad, peachy, slap-up, swell, smashing, old

very good

"he did a bully job"

"a neat sports car"

"had a great time at the party"

"you look simply smashing"

"we had a grand old time"

6. neat, straight, full-strength

of an alcoholic drink) without water

"took his whiskey neat"

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Quotations for neat

Neat, not gaudy. [ Charles Lamb ]

We must be neat; not neat, but cleanly. [ William Shakespeare ]

She was a neat dame that washed the ass's face. [ Proverb ]

As a general thing, an individual who is neat in his person is neat in his morals. [ H. W. Shaw ]

The style of letters should not be too highly polished. It ought to be neat and correct, but no more. [ Blair ]

We must be neat in our person, though not over particular; and let us shun boorish and ungenteel slovenliness. [ Cicero ]

Pretty conceptions, fine metaphors, glittering expressions, and something of a neat cast of verse are properly the dress, gems, or loose ornaments of poetry. [ Pope ]

Ought or Should? Both of these words, though implying obligation, have different shades of meaning. Ought is the stronger term. Thus a man ought to be honest; he should be neat in his dress. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]

Chance never writ a legible book; chance never built a fair house; chance never drew a neat picture; it never did any of these things, nor ever will; nor can it be without absurdity supposed able to do them; which yet are works very gross and rude, very easy and feasible, as it were, in comparison to the production of a flower or a tree. [ Barrow ]

It is the saying of an old divine, Two things in ray apparel I will chiefly aim at - commodiousness and decency; more than these is not commendable, yet I hate an effeminate spruceness as much as a fantastic disorder. A neglected comeliness is the best ornament. It is said of the celebrated Mr. Whitfield that he always was very clean and neat, and often said pleasantly that a minister of the gospel ought to be without a spot. [ J. Beaumont ]

Two things a master commits to his servant's care - the child and the child's clothes. It will be a poor excuse for the servant to say, at his master's return, Sir, here are all the child's clothes, neat and clean, but the child is lost. Much so of the account that many will give to God of their souls and bodies at the great day. Lord, here is my body; I am very grateful for it; I neglected nothing that belonged to its contents and welfare; but as for my soul, that is lost and cast away forever. I took little care and thought about it. [ John Flavel ]

neat in Scrabble®

The word neat is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 4

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters neat:

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neat in Words With Friends™

The word neat is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 5

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters neat:

NEAT
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Word Growth involving neat

Shorter words in neat

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Longer words containing neat

aeneator aeneators

beneath

cuneate

delineating nondelineating

delineating predelineating

delineative

interlineating

lineate delineate delineated nondelineated

lineate delineate delineated predelineated

lineate delineate delineated undelineated

lineate delineate delineates predelineates

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lineate interlineate interlineated

lineate interlineate interlineates

lineate lineated delineated nondelineated

lineate lineated delineated predelineated

lineate lineated delineated undelineated

lineate lineated interlineated

lineation alineation

lineation delineation delineations nondelineations

lineation delineation delineations predelineations

lineation delineation nondelineation nondelineations

lineation delineation predelineation predelineations

lineation interlineation interlineations

lineation lineations delineations nondelineations

lineation lineations delineations predelineations

lineation lineations interlineations

lineator delineator delineators

lineator lineators delineators

neaten neatened

neaten neatening

neaten neatens

neaten uneaten

neater maneater maneaters

neatest

neathmost

neatly

neatness

noneating

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