Definition of Neutral

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Neutral

Not engaged on either side; not taking part with or assisting either of two or more contending parties; neuter; indifferent.

Neither good nor bad; of medium quality; middling; not decided or pronounced.

Neuter. See Neuter, a., 3.

Having neither acid nor basic properties; unable to turn red litmus blue or blue litmus red; -- said of certain salts or other compounds. Contrasted with acid, and alkaline.

A person or a nation that takes no part in a contest between others; one who is neutral.

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Neutral Quotations

The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.
George W. Bush

I had hoped God would be neutral.
Darrell Royal

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.
Desmond Tutu

Sometimes I get the feeling the whole world is against me, but deep down I know that's not true. Some of the smaller countries are neutral.
Robert Orben

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.
Paulo Freire

Nature is neutral.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.
Dag Hammarskjold

Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
Jesse Jackson

The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture.
Raymond Chandler

Neutral Translations

neutral in Dutch is neutraal, afzijdig, onpartijdig
neutral in French is neutre
neutral in German is Nulleiter, neutral, neutral, Null.., Ruhe..
neutral in Italian is neutrale
neutral in Portuguese is neutro
neutral in Spanish is neutral
neutral in Swedish is neutral

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