Definitions for neat

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Spelling: [neet]
IPA: /nit/

Neat is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 38 anagrams from letters in neat (aent).

Definitions for neat

noun

  1. an animal of the genus Bos; a bovine, as a cow or ox.

adverb

  1. Informal. neatly.

adjective

  1. in a pleasingly orderly and clean condition:
  2. habitually orderly and clean in appearance or habits:
  3. of a simple, pleasing appearance, style, design, etc.:
  4. cleverly effective in character or execution:
  5. Slang. great; wonderful; fine:
  6. clever, dexterous, or apt:
  7. straight (def 33).
  8. Building Trades. (of cement) without sand or other aggregate. (of plaster) without any admixture except hair or fiber.
  9. net:

Origin of neat

1300-50; Middle English net spruce, trim, clean Middle French Latin nitidus shining, polished, handsome, spruce, equivalent to nit(ēre) to shine + -idus -id4

Examples for neat

In it he arrives at (as well as departs from; neat feat) the startling notion of the Great War as one that was pre-mourned.

She had been so neat and orderly about everything and had kept him so clean from a baby up.

The clumsy framework of the receiver was reduced to a neat and portable size.

In English, French, and Arabic, the reason was announced in neat print.

Senator Paul also scorned “labels” and the tendency to corral politicians and thinkers into neat, ideological camps.

When Little Snow White entered, she found everything tiny, but dainty and neat.

In a neat line, his agent, beginning a bidding war, promised: “Michiko Kakutani will flip for this.”

Katy is away for the night, you know, and I'm sure her room is as neat and pretty as can be.

The soldiers in 2nd Platoon, Blackfoot Company discovered his rifle, helmet, body armor and web gear in a neat stack.

He brought forth from a pocket a neat sheaf of banknotes, which he held out.

Word Value for neat
Scrable

4

Words with friends

5

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