Definition of Neat

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Definition of Neat

Neat

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.

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.

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.

Excellent in character, skill, or performance, etc.; nice; finished; adroit; as, a neat design; a neat thief.

With all deductions or allowances made; net. [In this sense usually written net. See Net, a., 3.]

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Neat Quotations

Ankles are nearly always neat and good-looking, but knees are nearly always not.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.
Aldous Huxley

There is always an easy solution to every problem - neat, plausible, and wrong.
H. L. Mencken

Every speaker has a mouth; An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it's filled with wisdom. Sometimes it's filled with feet.
Robert Orben

I always thought, it would be neat to make the Olympic team.
Michael Phelps

I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around a campfire but are lousy in politics.
Newt Gingrich

I had to tell about my colonic, which expresses the fact why I'm so neat today as opposed to a few years ago. I never knew that the weight made that much difference.
James Brown

I had been a student in Vienna, and one of the neat little things I had found out was about that zoo. It was a good debut novel for me to have published. I was 26 or 27 when it was published. I already had a kid and would soon have a second.
John Irving

Dirt makes a man look masculine. Let your hair blow in the wind, and all that. It's OK. All you have to do is look neat when you have to look neat.
Hedy Lamarr

That was the reasoning behind learning to play bass, and then after that it was more like it was neat to play songs together - for me to play bass and for him to play guitar.
Tom Araya

Neat Translations

neat in Afrikaans is netjies
neat in Dutch is duidelijk, netto, netto-
neat in Finnish is netto
neat in French is parure
neat in German is nett
neat in Italian is gioielli
neat in Latin is mundus, tersus
neat in Portuguese is puro
neat in Spanish is pulcro

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