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1. Clean or organized
   "her neat dress"; "a neat room"
   - orderly
    
2. Showing care in execution
   "neat homework"; "neat handwriting"
    
3. Free from what is tawdry or unbecoming
   "a neat style"; "a neat set of rules"; "she hated to have her neat plans upset"
   - refined, tasteful
    
4. Free from clumsiness; precisely or deftly executed
   "the neat exactness of the surgeon's knife"
   - clean
    
5. Very good
   "a neat sports car"
   - bang-up, bully, corking, cracking, dandy, great, groovy, keen, nifty, not bad, peachy, slap-up, swell, smashing, grouse [Austral, NZ], ripper [Austral]
    
6. Without water
   "took his whiskey neat"
   - straight, full-strength

Derived forms: neatest, neater

See also: adroit, elegant, good, neatly, neatness, tidy, undiluted

Encyclopedia: Neat Neat, Neat, Neat