"neater" 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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