neat
Clean, tidy; free from dirt or impurities.
Other meanings
Free from contaminants; unadulterated, undiluted. Particularly of liquor and cocktails; see usage below.
“I like my whisky neat.”
Conditions with a liquid reagent or gas performed with no standard solvent or cosolvent.
Synonyms
- orderly
Example sentences
Word history
From Latin "nitidus" (gleaming).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “neat” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.