Neat vs. Neet — Which is Correct Spelling?
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Which is correct: Neat or Neet
How to spell Neat?
Neat
Correct Spelling
Neet
Incorrect Spelling
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Neat Definitions
Arranged in a tidy way; in good order
The books had been stacked up in neat piles
Done with or demonstrating skill or efficiency
A neat bit of deduction
(of liquid, especially spirits) not diluted or mixed with anything else
He drank neat Scotch
Very good; excellent
It was really neat seeing the city
A bovine animal.
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Orderly and clean; tidy
A neat office.
A neat desk.
Habitually tidy or well-organized
Was lucky to have a neat roommate.
Marked by ingenuity and skill; adroit
A neat turn of phrase.
Not diluted or mixed with other substances
Neat whiskey.
Left after all deductions; net
Neat profit.
(Slang) Wonderful; terrific
That was a neat party.
A cow or other domestic bovine animal.
Clean, tidy; free from dirt or impurities.
My room is neat because I tidied it this morning.
She has very neat hair.
Free from contaminants; unadulterated, undiluted. Particularly of liquor and cocktails; see usage below.
I like my whisky neat.
(chemistry) Conditions with a liquid reagent or gas performed with no standard solvent or cosolvent.
The Arbuzov reaction is performed by adding the bromide to the phosphite, neat.
The molecular beam was neat acetylene.
(archaic) With all deductions or allowances made; net.
Having a simple elegance or style; clean, trim, tidy, tasteful.
The front room was neat and carefully arranged for the guests.
Well-executed or delivered; clever, skillful, precise.
Having the two protagonists meet in the last act was a particularly neat touch.
Facile; missing complexity or details in the favor of convenience or simplicity.
Courts should not reduce this case to a neat set of legal rules.
Good, excellent, desirable.
Hey, neat convertible, man.
Used to signify a job well done.
Used to signify approval.
(informal) An artificial intelligence researcher who believes that solutions should be elegant, clear and provably correct. Compare scruffy.
(archaic) A bull or cow.
(archaic) Cattle collectively.
Cattle of the genus Bos, as distinguished from horses, sheep, and goats; an animal of the genus Bos; as, a neat's tongue; a neat's foot.
Wherein the herds[men] were keeping of their neat.
The steer, the heifer, and the calfAre all called neat.
A neat and a sheep of his own.
Of or pertaining to the genus Bos, or to cattle of that genus; as, neat cattle.
Free from that which soils, defiles, or disorders; clean; cleanly; tidy.
If you were to see her, you would wonder what poor body it was that was so surprisingly neat and clean.
Free from what is unbecoming, inappropriate, or tawdry; simple and becoming; pleasing with simplicity; tasteful; chaste; as, a neat style; a neat dress.
Free from admixture or adulteration; good of its kind; as, neat brandy; to drink one's vodka neat.
Excellent in character, skill, or performance, etc.; nice; finished; adroit; as, a neat design; a neat thief.
Clean or orderly;
Her neat dress
A neat room
Showing care in execution;
Neat homework
Neat handwriting
Free from what is tawdry or unbecoming;
A neat style
A neat set of rules
She hated to have her neat plans upset
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
Very good;
He did a bully job
A neat sports car
Had a great time at the party
You look simply smashing
Without water;
Took his whiskey neat
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