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[ adjective ] clean or orderly
Examples "her neat dress" "a neat room" Used in print (Robert A. Futterman, The Future of Our Cities....)And wherever the new thruways go_up their banks are lined by neat glass and metal and colored brick light industry . (Bruce Palmer, "My Brother's Keeper", Many Are...)They were stocky men , well_fed and clean-shaven , with neat uniforms and sturdy boots . (Jane Gilmore Rushing, "Against the Moon,"...)She had made curtains for all the windows of her little house , and she had kept it spotless and neat , shabby as it was , and cooked good meals for Bobby_Joe . (Sallie Bingham, "Moving Day," The Atlantic...)Still , he had liked the way she had looked , in a fresh , neat cotton dress - citron yellow , if he remembered . (Octavia Waldo, A Cup of the Sun....)He knew at a glance that the biggest sandals belonged to Niobe , the neatest ones to Concetta , and the laced ones to Romeo , Concetta 's idiot brother . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] showing care in execution
Examples "neat homework" "neat handwriting" Used in print (Marvin Schiller, "The Sheep's in the Meadow,"...)My memory has catalogued for easy reference and withdrawal the image of her pink , scented stationery and the unsloped , almost printed configurations of her neat , studious handwriting with which she invited me to recall our summer , so many sentences beginning with `` Remember when '' ; and_others concerning camp friends who resided in her suburban neighborhood , and news of her commencing again her piano_lessons , her private_school , a visit to Boston to see her grandparents and an uncle who was a surgeon returned on furlough , wounded , from the war in Europe . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] free from clumsiness; precisely or deftly executed
Synonyms Examples "he landed a clean left on his opponent's cheek" "a clean throw" "the neat exactness of the surgeon's knife" Used in print (Musical America, LXXXI:5...)Compare the vast difference in scope and beauty between his neat and witty little Classical_Symphony and his big , muscular , passionate , and eloquent Fifth_Symphony ; or the Love_for_Three_Oranges ( gay as it is ) with the wonderful , imaginative , colorful , and subtle tenderness of the magnificent ballet , The Stone_Flower . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] without water
Synonyms Examples "took his whiskey neat" Related terms |
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[ adjective ] without water
Synonyms Examples "took his whiskey neat" Related terms |
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