Neat vs. Neet — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Neat and Neet
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Neat
Arranged in a tidy way; in good order
The books had been stacked up in neat piles
Neat
Done with or demonstrating skill or efficiency
A neat bit of deduction
Neat
(of liquid, especially spirits) not diluted or mixed with anything else
He drank neat Scotch
Neat
Very good; excellent
It was really neat seeing the city
Neat
A bovine animal.
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Neat
Orderly and clean; tidy
A neat office.
A neat desk.
Neat
Habitually tidy or well-organized
Was lucky to have a neat roommate.
Neat
Marked by ingenuity and skill; adroit
A neat turn of phrase.
Neat
Not diluted or mixed with other substances
Neat whiskey.
Neat
Left after all deductions; net
Neat profit.
Neat
(Slang) Wonderful; terrific
That was a neat party.
Neat
A cow or other domestic bovine animal.
Neat
Clean, tidy; free from dirt or impurities.
My room is neat because I tidied it this morning.
She has very neat hair.
Neat
Free from contaminants; unadulterated, undiluted. Particularly of liquor and cocktails; see usage below.
I like my whisky neat.
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.
Neat
(archaic) With all deductions or allowances made; net.
Neat
Having a simple elegance or style; clean, trim, tidy, tasteful.
The front room was neat and carefully arranged for the guests.
Neat
Well-executed or delivered; clever, skillful, precise.
Having the two protagonists meet in the last act was a particularly neat touch.
Neat
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.
Neat
Good, excellent, desirable.
Hey, neat convertible, man.
Neat
Used to signify a job well done.
Neat
Used to signify approval.
Neat
(informal) An artificial intelligence researcher who believes that solutions should be elegant, clear and provably correct. Compare scruffy.
Neat
(archaic) A bull or cow.
Neat
(archaic) Cattle collectively.
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.
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.
Neat
Of or pertaining to the genus Bos, or to cattle of that genus; as, neat cattle.
Neat
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.
Neat
Free from what is unbecoming, inappropriate, or tawdry; simple and becoming; pleasing with simplicity; tasteful; chaste; as, a neat style; a neat dress.
Neat
Free from admixture or adulteration; good of its kind; as, neat brandy; to drink one's vodka neat.
Neat
Excellent in character, skill, or performance, etc.; nice; finished; adroit; as, a neat design; a neat thief.
Neat
Clean or orderly;
Her neat dress
A neat room
Neat
Showing care in execution;
Neat homework
Neat handwriting
Neat
Free from what is tawdry or unbecoming;
A neat style
A neat set of rules
She hated to have her neat plans upset
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
Neat
Very good;
He did a bully job
A neat sports car
Had a great time at the party
You look simply smashing
Neat
Without water;
Took his whiskey neat
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