Neutral

Definitions: Neutral

Neutral

Adjective

1. Neither moral nor immoral; neither good nor evil, right nor wrong.

2. Having no personal preference; "impersonal criticism"; "a neutral observer".

3. (chemistry) having only a limited ability to react chemically; not active; "inert matter"; "an indifferent chemical in a reaction".

4. Not supporting or favoring either side in a war, dispute, or contest.

5. (physics) having no net electric charge; not electrified.

6. Lacking hue; "neutral colors like back or white".

7. Of no distinctive quality or characteristics or type.

8. Lacking distinguishing quality or characteristics; "a neutral personality that made no impression whatever".

Noun

1. One who does not side with any party in a war or dispute.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "neutral" was first used: 1471. (references)

Aerospace

Chemical Industry

Computing

Food & Agriculture

Nuclear Energy & Physics

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Synonyms: Neutral

Absence of Choice

Verb: be neutral; Adjective: have no choice, have no election; waive, not vote; abstain from voting, refrain from voting; leave undecided; "make a virtue of necessity".

Adjective: neutral, neuter; indifferent, uninterested; undecided; (irresolute).

Avoidance

Adjective: unsought, unattempted; avoiding; Verb: neutral, shy of; (unwilling); elusive, evasive; fugitive, runaway; shy, wild.

Mean

Adjective: mean, intermediate; middle; average; neutral.

Peace

Adjective: pacific; peaceable, peaceful; calm, tranquil, untroubled, halcyon; bloodless; neutral.

Crosswords: Neutral

Albanian (neuter, neutral), Danish (impartial, neutral), German (impartial, neuter, neutral, neutrally, non committal, uncommitted), Papiamen (impartial, neutral), Portuguese (neutral), Romanian (neutral), Spanish (neutral, non-aligned), Swedish (impartial, neuter, neutral, unbiased, unbiassed, uncommitted).

You know that, officially, Uncle Sam is completely neutral in this turkey shoot. (Tomorrow Never Dies; writing credit: Bruce Feirstein)

It began in the Earth year 2257 with the last of the Bablyon stations located deep in neutral space. (Babylon 5: The Gathering; writing credit: J. Michael Straczynski)

So as a personal favor to me, will you try to put your tongue in neutral for a while? (The Abyss; writing credit: James Cameron)

But the gym's neutral territory (West Side Story; writing credit: Jerome Robbins; Arthur Laurents)

A Serpent guard, a Horus guard and a Setesh guard meet on a neutral planet. (Stargate SG-1; writing credit: Robert C. Cooper; Brad Wright)

Neutral Ground (1968)

Father Was Neutral (1915)

Be Neutral (1914)

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References

• The World Market for Neutral Sodium Carbonate (Disodium Carbonate): A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

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Books

• A Neutral Corner: Boxing Essays (reference)

• Stuck in Neutral (reference)

• The Jungle Is Neutral (Classics of World War II the Secret War) (reference)

• To Speak is Never Neutral (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• Star Trek - The Next Generation, Episode 26: The Neutral Zone (reference)

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Music

• The Lonely Position of Neutral [ENHANCED] (reference)

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High Tech

• Tiffen 62mm Neutral Density 0.3 Filter (reference)

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Consumer Goods

• Miniwear Short Sleeve Bodysuit Neutral - Large (reference)

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Space Station Mock-up in Neutral Buoyancy Simulator.Credit: NASA.

Almost the last neutral.Credit: Library of Congress.

If I ran them out I wouldn't be neutral!.Credit: Library of Congress.

Kiacta [i.e, Kiakhta] on the Russian frontier. View shows neutral ground between Russian and Chinese territory. Bridges in foreground located in China.Credit: Library of Congress.

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These persons shall be nationals of Powers that have remained neutral during the war. (reference)

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In the meantime, it seems as though we were neutral in the game which is being played between our good and our ill fortune.

Individuals, like nations, must have suitable broad and natural boundaries, even a considerable neutral ground, between them.

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Health

Ineffective or inefficient interventions should be discontinued if their impact is negative or neutral. (references)

Evidence implicates Phe as the "toxic" agent in PKU. Hyperphenylalaninemia inhibits the transport of large, neutral amino acids (LNAA) into the brain. (references)

Business

Saudi Aramco has oil/gas operations in the Neutral Zone between Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. (references)

Investment contracts often stipulate arbitration in Stockholm because the forum there is considered neutral. (references)

Both major parties' electoral positions on tax reform call for relatively modest and revenue neutral programs. (references)

Children

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Students in minority areas frequently face a hostile environment in schools that do not provide an ethnically neutral setting. (references)

Civil Liberties

Armenia

During the 1999 parliamentary elections the coverage of political parties on state television and other media generally was balanced and largely neutral. (references)

Iraq

In 1999 the Sanctions Committee offered to disburse funds to cover Hajj-related expenses via a neutral third party; the Government again rejected the offer. (references)

Economic History

Sweden

According to the survey this can be interpreted as neutral bordering on bad. (references)

Spain

Spain was officially neutral during World War II but followed a pro-Axis policy. (references)

Korea

If one party is a not resident in Korea, either may request an arbitrator from a neutral country. (references)

Human Rights

Afghanistan

However, according to neutral observers, no real progress was made by the Taliban in facilitating investigations, and mass and other killings from 1997 and 1998 have not been investigated fully. (references)

Colombia

Sanchez and Ortega were coordinating an education project in the self-declared neutral peace community of San Francisco de Asis (Uraba region, Choco department), which is accompanied by the Catholic Church and by CINEP. (references)

Bulgaria

Under the Constitution, the judiciary is granted independent and coequal status with the legislative and executive branches; however, the judiciary continued to struggle with problems including a lack of transparent and neutral standards for assigning cases; poor coordination between prosecutors, investigators, and courts; corruption; low salaries; understaffing; antiquated procedures; and a heavy backlog of cases. (references)

Political Economy

JAPAN

Some entities continue to draw up tender specifications to favor a preferred vendor, using design-based specifications rather than more neutral performance-based specifications. (references)

Bangladesh

The walkout became a boycott when the opposition alleged the BNP rigged a March 1994 by-election and demanded Khaleda Zia hand over power to a neutral caretaker government before the next national polls. (references)

Bosnia and Herzegovina

In the city of Brcko, which is a "self-governing neutral district," an internationally appointed supervisor with executive authority is empowered to address such issues as taxation, law enforcement, district management, and composition of the district assembly. (references)

Political Rights

Malaysia

Opposition leaders complained that local government officials who served as election officers were not always neutral. (references)

Algeria

Under a system of proportional representation, the government-supported party, the National Democratic Rally (RND) won a plurality of 154 seats out of a total of 371. In their final report, neutral observers stated that, of the 1,258 (of the country's 35,000) voting stations that they assessed, 1,169 produced satisfactory results, 95 were problematic, and 11 were unsatisfactory. (references)

Bangladesh

Party leaders appoint candidates for elections; many allege that some candidates effectively "purchase" nomination from party leaders with generous campaign contributions or personal "gifts." Under a 1996 constitutional amendment, general parliamentary elections are presided over by a caretaker government, led by the most recently retired Chief Justice of the Supreme Court or, if he is unfit or unwilling, another senior retired justice or other neutral figure. (references)

Trade

Slovak Rep

The rules appear to provide a uniform and neutral system of valuation. (references)

Bangladesh

A trade neutral VAT of 15.0% is levied on all imports and domestically produced goods, with some exceptions. (references)

Senegal

Senegal implemented the WTO Agreement on Customs Valuation in July 2001, which provides for a neutral and uniform system for the valuation of goods for customs purposes. (references)

Women

Romania

An emergency ordinance passed in June made laws on rape and sexual abuse gender neutral. (references)

Worker Rights

Korea

In recent years, the Government has cultivated a more neutral stance in labor disputes. (references)

Solomon Islands

The three-member TDP, composed of a chairman appointed by the judiciary, a labor representative, and a business representative, is independent and neutral. (references)

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Expressions using "neutral": architecture Neutral Distribution Format ♦ chemically neutral oil ♦ electrically neutral ♦ energetic neutral atom ♦ idiom Neutral ♦ impersonal neutral ♦ in neutral ♦ neutral axis ♦ neutral bar ♦ neutral country ♦ neutral curve ♦ neutral data ♦ neutral equilibrium ♦ neutral esters ♦ neutral fibre ♦ neutral file ♦ neutral flow ♦ neutral gear ♦ Neutral Glycosphingolipids ♦ neutral Interconnect ♦ neutral line ♦ neutral oil ♦ neutral point ♦ neutral policy ♦ neutral position ♦ neutral potassium tartrate ♦ neutral product definition database for large multifunctional systems ♦ Neutral Red ♦ neutral salt ♦ neutral soil ♦ neutral spirit ♦ neutral spirits ♦ neutral state ♦ neutral sulfite cooking liquor ♦ neutral sulfite pulp ♦ neutral sulphite cooking liquor ♦ neutral sulphite pulp ♦ neutral surface ♦ neutral tint ♦ neutral vowel ♦ neutral zone ♦ system with neutral point solidly connected to earth. Additional references.

Beginning with "neutral": neutral-current, neutral-flavoured, neutral-free, neutral-sounding, neutral-umpire.

Ending with "neutral": architecture-neutral, class-neutral, cost-neutral, gender-neutral, non-neutral, risk-neutral, sex-neutral, topic-neutral, vendor-neutral.

Albanian

neutral (neuter), vend asnjanës, person asnjanës, pa seks (agamic, asexual), mesatar (average, mean, measurable, mediocre, medium, mesial, mid, middling, moderate, normal, par), i papërcaktuar (general, impersonal, indefinite, indeterminate, uncertain, undetermined), i pangjyrë (achromatic, colorless, colourless, emasculate), i pagjini (neuter, sexless), i përhimë (dun, dusty, greyish, grizzle, grizzled, grizzly, platinum blond, taupe), asnjanës (neuter, uncommitted). (various references)

Arabic 

‏محايد (indifferent, live fence, neuter), ‏متحايد, ‏متعادل (balanced, equal, even, on a par with, tied), ‏حيادي (colorless, colourless, indifferent, neuter), ‏اللالوني. (various references)

Bulgarian 

среден (average, indifferent, intermediary, intermediate, mean, medial, median, medium, mesial, mid, middle, middlemost, middle-of-the-road, middling, moderate, run of the mill), тъмен (black, blackish, cimmerian, dark, darkling, darksome, deep, dense, dusk, dusky, esoteric, fuscous, inky, low-browed, murky, obscure, opaque, overcast, sad, shady, somber, sombre, sooty, unlit), нулев проводник, неутрална държава, неутрален проводник, неутрален (indifferent, middle-of-the-road, mugwump, neuter), неопределен (ambiguous, amorphous, formless, inconclusive, indecisive, indefinable, indefinite, indeterminable, indeterminate, indistinct, inexplicit, infinitive, loose, nondescript, uncertain, undefined, undetermined, unidentified, vague), безразличен (colorless, colourless, disinterested, frigid, incurious, indifferent, insensible, lukewarm, poppied, stony, tepid, unimpressed, uninterested, unmoved, untouched), безполов (agamic, asexual, neuter, sexless), полово недоразвит, поданик на неутрална държава. (various references)

Chinese 

中立 . (various references)

Czech

nulový (null), neutrální stát, neutrální, neutrál (neuter), bezpohlavní (neuter, sexless). (various references)

Danish

neutral (impartial). (various references)

Dutch

neutraal (impartial, non-denominational, non-sectarian). (various references)

Esperanto

nepartia, neŭtrala (impartial). (various references)

Faeroese

uttanveltaður (impartial). (various references)

Farsi 

نادرگیر, خنثی (Eunuch, Hermaprodite, Inactive, Neuter), بیطرف (Nonpartisan, Unaligned), بیرنگ (Effeminate, Gray), بدون جانبداری . (various references)

Finnish

nollapotentiaali (zero potential), nollajännite (zero potential), nolla (nil, nought, null, rest 0, zero), neutraaliöljy (neutral solvent), neutraali atomi (neutral atom), neutraali, parafiiniperustainen öljy (neutral solvent). (various references)

French

neutre (neuter, neutral atom). (various references)

German

neutral (impartial, neuter, neutrally, non committal, uncommitted). (various references)

Greek 

ουδέτερος. (various references)

Hebrew 

סתמי (indefinite, vague), � טרלי (neuter). (various references)

Hungarian

semleges (impartial, neuter, non-comittal, noncommittal, unconcerned), közömbös (cool, dry eyed, impassible, impassive, incurious, indifferent, inert, lackadaisical, listless, lukewarm, neglectful, third party, third person). (various references)

Indonesian

netral. (various references)

Italian

neutrale (indifferent, neuter), neutro (neuter, neutral atom). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

ニュース�'�" (neutralism, new ceramics, new town, new traditional, new type, news, news media, Newsweek), 中性 (indifference, neuter gender, sterility), 不即不離 (noncommittal). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ニュートラル , ふそくふり (close relationship, noncommittal), ちゅうせい (fairness, impartiality, indifference, loyalty, mediaeval times, Middle Ages, neuter gender, sincerity, sterility). (various references)

Korean 

중립. (various references)

Manx

neuchommeeagh, neaghtyragh (neuter, neutralization), naeear (neuter). (various references)

Norwegian

nøytral (impartial). (various references)

Papiamen

neutral (impartial). (various references)

Pig Latin

eutralnay

Polish

neutrala (impartial). (various references)

Portuguese

neutro (impartial, indifferently, laodicean). (various references)

Romanian

neutru (indifferent, neuter, non committal), neutral, neprecis (doubtful, dusty, lax, loose), neangajat (disengaged, free), vas al unui stat neutru, sur (Gray, grey, grizzle, grizzly, leaden), stat neutru, intermediar (agent, factor, go between, interjacent, intermediary, intermediate, intermedium, mediate, mediator, medium, middleman, negotiator, salesman, wangler), cenuşiu (ash-colored, ash-coloured, ashen, ashy, drab, Gray, grey, greyish, grizzle, grizzled, grizzly, hoary, leaden). (various references)

Russian 

нейтральный (indifferent). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

neutralna strana, neutralan (counteractive), nepristrasan (dispassionate, even handed, evenhanded, nonpartisan, non-partisan, objective, unbiased, unprejudiced), neodređen (indefinite, indeterminate, inexplicit, undeterminable, undetermined, unspecified), ravnodušan (apathetic, apathetical, cold, indifferent, listless, lukewarm, phlegmatic, pococurante, unconcerned, uninterested), prazan hod (idling). (various references)

Spanish

neutral (non-aligned), neutro (neuter, neutral atom, zero potential). (various references)

Swedish

neutral (impartial, neuter, unbiased, unbiassed, uncommitted). (various references)

Thai

ซึ่งเป็นกลาง, ซึ่งไม่มีสี. (various references)

Turkish

nötr (inactive), yansız (impartial, non committal), tarafsız kimse (don't know), tarafsız ülke, tarafsız (candid, clinical, colorless, colourless, crossbench, detached, disinterested, dispassionate, equitable, even handed, fair-minded, free from bias, impartial, judicial, non committal, non party, noncommittal, nonpartisan, non-partisan, nonparty, unbiased, unbiassed, uncolored, uncoloured, uncommitted, unprejudiced, unwarped), cinsiyet organı olmayan. (various references)

Turkmen 

bitarap. (various references)

Ukranian 

нейтрал (neuter), проміжний (in between, interim, intermediary, interstitial, mediate, neuter, osculant, transitional, transitive), байдужий (apathetic, apathetical, barren, chill, cold, cold blooded, cold-hearted, cold-livered, disinterested, frigid, half hearted, impassible, indifferent, insensible, insentient, nonchalant, passionless, unaffected, unconcerned, uninterested, unmoved), без ніяких відтінків, безбарвність (achromatism, baldness, platitude, washiness), безстатевий (agamic, asexual, epicene, neuter, sexless), безсторонній (candid, dispassionate, equitable, even handed, impartial, non-partisan, objective, unconcerned), позаблоковий (non-aligned), неполяризований, сіруватий (grayish, greyish, grizzled, grizzly), нейтралістський, нейтральний (indifferent, neuter, non-aligned), нейтральний колір, нейтральна держава, невиразний (chancy, characterless, dim, elusive, expressionless, faint, featureless, foggy, hazy, indecisive, ineffective, inexpressive, milk and water, nebulose, nebulous, obscure, toneless, weak, wishy washy, woolly, wooly), громадянин нейтральної держави, середній (average, mean, medial, median, medium, mesial, mid, middle, middle-of-the-road, middling, moderate, normal, secondary), непевний (amorphous, chancy, indefinite, nebulose, nondescript, nubilous, vapoury). (various references)

Vietnamese 

nước trung lập (neuter). (various references)

commune, communem, communes, communi, communibus, media, mediae, mediam, medias, medii, mediis, medio, medios, medium, medius, neutralis, quiescam, quiescant, quiescas, quiescat, quiescatis, quiesce, quiescebat, quiescent, quiescentem, quiescentes, quiescentia, quiescere, quiesceremus, quiesces, quiescet, quiescis, quiescit, quiescite, quieta, quietam, quieti, quietis, quietissimus, quieto, quietum, quietus, quieverunt, quievi, quievimus, quievissent, quievit, quievitque. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "neutral": neutralise, neutralised, neutralises, neutralising, neutralism, neutralisms, neutralist, neutralistic, neutralists, neutralities, neutrality, neutralization, neutralizations, neutralize, neutralized, neutralizer, neutralizers, neutralizes, neutralizing, neutrally, neutralness, neutralnesses, neutrals. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Neutral" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: nahtral, neatral, netrual, neuatral, neutial, neutrel, neutria, Neutrik, nuetial, nuetral, Nutra, nutral. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: antler, eluant, learnt, lunate, nature, neural, rental, runlet, unreal.

-2 letters: alert, alter, antre, artel, laten, later, leant, learn, lunar, lunet, lutea, ratel, renal, taler, tuner, ulnae, ulnar, ultra, unlet, urate, ureal.

-3 letters: ante, aunt, earl, earn, elan, etna, lane, late, lean, lear, lent, luna, lune, lunt, lure, lute, near, neat, nurl, rale, rant, rate, real, rent, rule, rune, runt, tael, tale, tare, tarn, teal, tear, tela, tern, true, tule, tuna, tune, turn, ulan, ulna, urea.

-4 letters: ale, alt, ane, ant, are, art, ate, ear, eat, eau, era, ern, eta, lar, lat, lea, let, leu, nae, net, nut, ran, rat, ret, rue, run, rut, tae, tan, tar, tau, tea, tel, ten, tun, urn, uta.

-5 letters: ae, al, an, ar, at, el, en, er, et, la, na, ne, nu, re, ta, un, ut.

+1 letter: auntlier, dentural, flaunter, neutrals, outlearn, retinula, tenurial, turnable, unlearnt.

+2 letters: antiulcer, avirulent, calenture, crenulate, flaunters, flauntier, granulate, granulite, menstrual, neutrally, nucleator, outlander, outlearns, outlearnt, reluctant, resultant, retinulae, retinular, retinulas, subaltern, tellurian, tenurable, tremulant, turntable, ultrafine, unaltered, unearthly, unreality, unrelated, unstabler.

+3 letters: adulterant, adulterine, allurement, antennular, artfulness, bladdernut, calentures, crenulated, fluorinate, fraudulent, granulated, granulates, granulites, interlunar, intermural, lacustrine, laundrette, laureating, laureation, lenticular, multirange, naturalise, naturalize, neutralise, neutralism, neutralist, neutrality, neutralize, nucleators, outgeneral, outlanders, outlearned, prenuptial, prudential, regulating, regulation, reluctance, reluctancy, resaluting, resultants, retinacula, returnable, roundtable, rudimental, subalterns, subcentral, supplanter, tarantulae, tentacular, tenurially, tourmaline, tranquiler, transvalue, turntables, ulcerating, ulceration, ultraclean, ultradense, unclearest, ungrateful, unilateral, unliterary, untraveled, urogenital, wanderlust.

+4 letters: adulterants, allurements, anticruelty, antinuclear, bladdernuts, centrifugal, conjectural, construable, counterplan, counterplay, counterplea, countervail, crenulation, curtailment, curtainless, elutriating, elutriation, entablature, equilibrant, exuberantly, faultfinder, fluorinated, fluorinates, fortunately, granulocyte, inscrutable, interannual, interlunary, intersexual, involucrate, launderette, laundrettes, laureations, naturalised, naturalises, naturalized, naturalizes, naturalness, neurulation, neutralised, neutralises, neutralisms, neutralists, neutralized, neutralizer, neutralizes, neutralness, outgenerals, outlearning, pastureland, planetarium, radiolucent, rectangular, reductional, redundantly, regulations, reinoculate, reluctances, reluctantly, reluctating, reluctation, repugnantly, resultantly, retinaculum, returnables, revaluating, revaluation, roundtables, seminatural, strangulate, subinterval, subterminal, superaltern, supplanters, surveillant, tearfulness, thankfuller, thunderclap, tourmalines, tranquilest, tranquilize, tranquiller, translucent, transsexual, transvalued, transvalues, triangulate, ulcerations, ultramarine, ultramodern, unalterable, unalterably, uncertainly, unclarities, unelaborate, unfaltering, unhealthier, uniparental, unliberated, unprintable, unrealistic, unrealities, unregulated, unreluctant, untraceable, untrammeled, unutterable, unutterably, ventricular, voluntaries, wanderlusts.

+5 letters: adulterating, adulteration, aeronautical, agranulocyte, angularities, antipleasure, artfulnesses, battleground, caterwauling, centrifugals, clairaudient, congratulate, counterblast, counterclaim, counterplans, counterplays, counterpleas, counterrally, countervails, crenulations, curtailments, denaturalize, deregulating, deregulation, edulcorating, elocutionary, elucubrating, elucubration, elutriations, entablatures, equalitarian, equilibrants, evolutionary, extraneously, extranuclear, faultfinders, fraudulently, granulocytes, gratefulness, inaccurately, inarticulate, inoperculate, instrumental, insularities, interfaculty, interfluvial, interlobular, internuclear, internuncial, interpluvial, intertextual, launderettes, manslaughter, motoneuronal, multinuclear, neurotically, neurulations, neutralising, neutralistic, neutralities, neutralizers, neutralizing, nomenclature, nonregulated, outgeneraled, pasturelands, photonuclear, planetariums, polyurethane, premenstrual, proconsulate, prudentially, quadrivalent, quarterfinal, reevaluating, reevaluation, reinoculated, reinoculates, reluctancies, reluctations, repopulating, repopulation, reputational, reregulating, reregulation, reticulating, reticulation, revaluations, revictualing, ruminatively, salutariness, slaughtering, strangulated, strangulates, subcentrally, subintervals, superalterns, supernatural, surmountable, surveillants, tabernacular, thunderclaps, tranquilized, tranquilizer, tranquilizes, tranquillest, tranquillize, tranquilness, transfusable, transfusible, translucence, translucency, transmutable, transsexuals, transvaluate, triangulated, triangulates, turbellarian, ultraheating, ultramarines, ultramontane, ultrarefined, ultraviolent, unbreathable, uncali