Neat

Definition: Neat

Neat

Adjective

1. Clean or orderly; "her neat dress"; "a neat room".

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".

4. Free from clumsiness; precisely or deftly executed; "he landed a clean left on his opponent's cheek"; "a clean throw"; "the neat exactness of the surgeon's knife".

5. (informal) very good; "a bully pulpit"; "a neat sports car"; "had a great time at the party"; "you look simply smashing".

6. Without water; "took his whiskey neat".

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

Date "neat" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Mining

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NEAT

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Synonyms: Neat

Cleanness

Neat, spruce, tidy, trim, gimp, clean as a new penny, like a cat in pattens; cleaned; Verb: kempt.

Conciseness

Adjective: concise, brief, short, terse,close; to the point, exact; neat, compact; compressed, condensed, pointed; laconic, curt, pithy, trenchant, summary; pregnant; compendious; (compendium); succinct; elliptical, epigrammatic, quaint, crisp; sententious.

Elegance

Felicitous, happy, neat; well put, neatly put, well expressed, neatly expressed

Order

Adjective: orderly, regular; in order,in trim, in apple-pie order, in its proper place; neat, tidy, en regle, well regulated, correct, methodical, uniform, symmetrical, shipshape, businesslike, systematic; unconfused; (see confuse; ); arranged.

Plainness

Adjective: plain, simple; unornamented, unadorned, unvarnished; homely, homespun; neat; severe, chaste, pure, Saxon; commonplace, matter-of-fact, natural, prosaic.

Simpleness

Adjective: simple, uniform, of a piece, homogeneous, single, pure, sheer, neat.

Crosswords: Neat

Frisian (nothing).

That's a neat trick (The Matrix Reloaded; writing credit: Andy Wachowski; Larry Wachowski)

This is neat. (Jurassic Park; writing credit: Michael Crichton)

Yeah, because I'm thin, I'm single, and I'm neat. (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt)

Plus you get to wear those neat, long gloves (Caroline in the City; writing credit: Angela Carneiro)

Really? That would be a neat trick (Beverly Hills Cop; writing credit: Danilo Bach; Daniel Petrie Jr.)

Instead of growin old all dapper and neat (Just Push Play; performing artist: Aerosmith)

No I don't wanna be as neat as a new pin (We Live; performing artist: Bosson)

That religion you could sink in neat (Church of the Poison Mind; performing artist: Culture Club)

I need not your needles, they're needless to me; for kneading of noodles, 'twere needless, you see; but did my neat knickers but need to be kneed, I then should have need of your needles indeed. (references; author: unknown)

All Neat in Black Stockings (1968)

Keeping Clean and Neat (1956)

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Books

• I Wonder How Parrots Can Talk: And Other Neat Facts About Birds (I Wonder Series) (reference)

• Little Miss Neat (Mr. Men and Little Miss) (reference)

• Messie Free: Finding the Neat Person Inside You and Your Messiemate (reference)

• Neat Mom, Messie Kids: A Survival Guide (reference)

• Trick or Treat? Neat! (Tales From Duckport) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Consumer Goods

• Neat Seat Highchair - Cubby Parade (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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[Sugar plantation neat Guayamo, Puerto Rico]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Safe clothes for women war workers. The up-swept hairdress, or any modification of it, is the ideal coiffure for war work. It's neat, it's becoming, and above all, it's SAFE. Bendix Aviation Plant, Brooklyn, New York. Credit: Library of Congress.

Katzenjammer kids. "Hold still! You should be a neat liddle chent like der Rollo!". Credit: Library of Congress.

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I have put into Class I those whose answers seemed specially short and neat, and into Class III those that seemed specially long or clumsy

In all respects the house was kept by the two women exquisitely neat from top to bottom

Salesmen, neat, deadly, small intent eyes watching for weaknesses

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "neat": a neat trick ♦ neat and tidy ♦ neat as a new pin ♦ neat as a pin ♦ neat hack ♦ neat hair ♦ neat line ♦ neat profit ♦ neat spirit ♦ neat work ♦ very neat ♦ whiskey neat ♦ whisky neat. Additional references.

Beginning with "neat": neat-boned, neat-cut, neat-growing, neat-handed, neat-herd, Neat-houses, neat-looking, neat-safe-looking, neat-trimmed.

Ending with "neat": all-too-neat, pin-neat, ultra-neat.

Afrikaans

netjies (cleanly cut, net, precise, precize). (various references)

Albanian

modest (decent, decently, demure, diffident, discreet, humble, lowly, modest, quiet, unassertive, unobtrusive, unpretentious), lopë (cow), ka (bossy, Bullock, ox, there are, there is), i zoti (able, accomplished, adroit, capable, delicate, dexterous, dextrous, efficient, expert, fool, natty, neat-handed, proficient, skilful, skillful), i thjeshtë (abecedarian, artless, austere, bare, chaste, childlike, common, easy, elementary, enlisted, folksy, foolproof, Hick, home-bred, homely, homespun, humble, inelaborate, informal, ingenuous, inornate, mere, modest, native, natural, not mingled, onefold, ordinary, plain, prime, primitive, private, pure, quotidian, rude, russet, rustic, simple, unaffected, unassuming, unceremonious, unpretending, unpretentious, unsophisticated, very), i spikatshëm (insuppressible, rank), i shkathët (adroit, agile, artful, brisk, catlike, clever, cunning, deft, dexterous, dextrous, facile, feat, habile, knacky, light-handed, lightsome, lissom, lissome, lithe, lithesome, loose-limbed, lubricous, natty, neat-handed, nimble, quick-witted, ready, resourceful, shifty, skilful, skillful, slick, smart, spry, supple, swift-handed, tactical, vivacious), i saktë (accurate, clean-cut, clear-cut, close, correct, definite, exact, explicit, express, just, literal, painstaking, Pat, pithy, precise, pronounced, pure, right, strict, stringent, true, unexceptional, veracious), i rregullt (above board, correct, done, even, formal, frequent, habitual, honest, just, licit, measured, normal, on the level, orderly, regular, right, steady, systematic, systematical, tidy, trig, trim), i qartë (apparent, articulate, candid, clear, clear-cut, definite, distinct, evident, explicit, express, fair, formal, Frank, in focus, legible, limpid, lucid, luminous, manifest, obvious, open and shut, palpable, patent, perspicuous, plain, readable, self evident, serene, simple, tangible, unambiguous, unequivocal, visible, well-defined, well-marked), i pastër (absolute, chaste, childlike, clean, clean-handed, cleanly, clear, dapper, fair, innocent, net, new, orderly, potty-trained, pure, refined, simon-pure, snug, spotless, sterling, tidy, trig, unadulterated, unblended, unimpeachable, unwritten, virgin, virginal, well groomed, white), i përpiktë (exact, orderly, painstaking, precise, punctilious, right, scrupulous), i bërë mirë, dem (bull, ox). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مهندم (spruce, tidy, well groomed), ‏منظم (arranger, disposed, governor, in good order, marshaled, orderly, organized, organizer, regular, steward, systematic, tidy, well arranged, well ordered, well-organized), ‏متقن (accurate, artful, dexterous, dextrous, exact, excellent, exquisite, masterful, masterly, perfect, precise, skilful, skillful, subtle), ‏نقي (fresh, lucid, perspicuous, pure, refined, spruce, sweet), ‏ناعم (cosiness, delicate, downy, fine, gentle, glace, mellow, on velvet, powdery, silken, silky, smooth, soft, springy, squashy, tender, velvet, velvety), ‏نظيف (clean, cleanly, fair, immaculate, sanitary, spotless, spruce, stainless, taut, tidy), ‏خالي من الماء, ‏أنيق (bijou, chic, classy, coxcomb, dainty, dapper, dashing, dinky, dressy, elegant, exclusive, fine, gallant, genteel, good looking, gracious, jaunty, ladylike, mincing, natty, nice, perky, personable, posh, presentable, rich, saucy, seemly, sharp, smart, smug, sophisticated, spick and span, sporting, sportsmanlike, sporty, spruce, stylish, suave, swagger, swell, tailor made, taut, tidy, tight, trim, well groomed), ‏بارع (able, accomplished, adroit, artful, bright, brilliant, capable, clever, crafty, cunning, dexterous, dextrous, educated, fancy, fiend, foxy, handsome, handy, ingenious, intelligent, masterful, masterly, nice, pretty, skilful, skilled, skillful, smart, subtle, superior, sweet, very beautiful, witty, workmanlike, workmanly). (various references)

Bulgarian 

говедо (beef, ox), изискан (accomplished, classic, discerning, distinguished, elegant, exact, exquisite, gracious, nice, polished, polite, precise, recherche, refined, tasteful, urbane, well-rounded), изпипан, изкусен (adroit, clever, cunning, daedal, expert, light fingered, masterful, mean, proficient, scientific, sharp, skilful, skilled, skillful, slick, subtle, technic, technical, tricksy, versed, workmanlike), изящен (artistic, artistical, bijou, delicate, delicious, distinguished, minikin, nice, peachy, svelte, sylph-like), подреден (in good order, orderly, prim, tidy, tight, trim, well arranged), бик (bull), ловък (able, adroit, agile, artful, dodgy, handy, knacky, knowing, light fingered, natty, neat-handed, peart, politic, pretty, shrewd, skilful, skillful, slick, swift-handed, tricksy, tricky, wary, whizbang), едър рогат добитък (ox), вол (ox, oxen), добре оформен (shapely, well turned), говеда (cattle), ясен (articulate, ash, ash-tree, bright, clean-cut, clear, coherent, crystal, distinct, limpid, lucid, luminous, manifest, matter of course, obvious, pellucid, perceivable, perceptible, perspicuous, plain, readable, robust, serene, sharp, silver, silvery, Square, straight, straightaway, straightforward, tangible, transparent, unambiguous, unshadowed, vivid), говежди, кокетен (wicked), крава (bossy, cow), тънък (acute, cobwebby, fine, gauzy, hairsplitting, high pitched, jimp, lightweight, liny, nice, niggling, reedy, sheer, shrewd, sleazy, slender, slight, slim, subtle, subulate, tenuous, thin, threadlike, thready, willowy), чист (absolute, chaste, clean, cleanly, clear, crisp, crystal, downright, fair, fine, fresh, heavenly, immaculate, incorrupt, innocent, lucid, mere, native, natty, net, orderly, oriental, pellucid, pristine, pure, rank, sanitary, self, sheer, simon-pure, soilless, solid, stainless, sterling, straight, sublime, sweet, taintless, trim, unadulterated, unalloyed, unblemished, unmixed, unpolluted, unsophisticated, unspotted, unstained, virgin, virginal, virtuous, white, white-handed), чудесен (admirable, beautiful, champion, clipping, cool, corking, delicious, elegant, excellent, fabulous, famous, fine, glorious, gorgeous, great, heavenly, hot, immense, lovely, magnificent, marvellous, marvelous, nifty, noble, priceless, rattling, regular, ripping, scrumptious, smashing, spanking, splendid, super, terrific, thundering, topping, walloping, wizard, wonderful), хубав (beautiful, bonny, fair, fine, good, good looking, goodly, handsome, jolly, nice, nice-looking, personable, pretty, proper, rich, seemly, sightly, well favored, well-favoured), уместен (advisable, apposite, appropriate, apropos, felicitous, germane, good, happy, opportune, pertinent, poignant, pointful, proper, relevant, timely, to the point, well timed, well-judged), стегнат (close-textured, compact, concise, crisp, firm, natty, rakish, sailorly, serried, sinewy, soldierlike, soldierly, spiffing, spiffy, taut, tidy, tight, tricksy, trig, trim, well groomed), волски (bovine). (various references)

Chinese 

整齊 (tidy), 整洁 (tidy), 乾淨 (clean). (various references)

Czech

krásný (beautiful, fair, fine, good looking), hovìzí dobytek (cattle), elegantní (becoming, ciceronian, dapper, dashing, dressy, elegant, fashionable, full-fashioned, glamorous, glamourous, graceful, light-some, natty, sleek, smart, snappy, sophisticated, Spruce, swanky, swell, trim), úpravný, úhledný (sightly, slick, tidy, tight), èistotný (clean, house trained), èistý (absolute, blank, clean, clear, fine, net, new, perfect, pure, stainless, straight, taintless, tidy, true, unalloyed, untainted, white). (various references)

Dutch

netto- (cleanly cut, net, precize), netto (cleanly cut, net, precize). (various references)

Esperanto

neta (cleanly cut, net, precise, precize). (various references)

Faeroese

reinur (clean, cleanly cut, net, precize, pure, serene, untroubled, virgin, virginal). (various references)

Farsi 

پاکیزه (Brisk, Clean, Natty, Spruce, Sprucy, Tidy, Trim), مرتب (Intrinsic, Kilter, Methodic, Ordered, Orderly, Prissy, Regular, Shipshape, Straight, Tidy, Trim), گاو, تمیز (Clean, Dapper, Dinky, Prim, Pure, Scrubby), شسته ورفته . (various references)

Finnish

netto (cleanly cut, net, precize), soma (cute, dainty, nice, pretty, sweet), sirotekoinen (neatly made), siisti (clean, cleanly, decent, tidy), huoliteltu (carefully finished, elaborate, well-groomed), huolellinen (careful, elaborate). (various references)

French

net (net). (various references)

German

ordentlich (fairly, full, neatly, orderly, prim, proper, properly, real, reasonable, regular, reputable, respectable, seemily, seemy, tidily, tidy, trim, uncluttered, unruffled), nett (cute, cutely, fair, kind, kindly, lovely, natty, neatly, nice, nice-looking, nicely, pleasant, prettily, pretty, tidy). (various references)

Greek 

κόσμιοσ (comely, decent, decorous, proper, tidy), καλοφτιαγμένοσ (shapely), καθάριοσ (cleanly, natty, tidy), καθαρόσ (blank, clean, cleanly, clear, cloudless, net, plain, pure, sheer, smokeless, spick and span), κομψόσ (bijou, chic, comely, dainty, dapper, debonair, dressy, elegant, fancy, fine, jaunty, natty, nifty, posh, pretty, prim, quaint, rakish, smart, spark plug, sparkish, spiffy, stylish, trig, trim, well groomed), συγυρισμένοσ, νοικοκυρεμένοσ, πετυχημένοσ (successful), ακριβής (accurate, accurate in, exact, precise), ανέρωτοσ. (various references)

Hebrew 

מדויק ומסודר, מסודר ונקי (spick and span, tidy), פשוט (common, elementary, lowly, matter of fact, obvious, ordinary, petty, plain, simple, simplification, simply, straightforward, unvarnished), בהמה (animal, beast, cattle), צנוע (demure, homely, humble, lowly, meek, modest, prude, unassuming), צח (clear, fresh, pure, virginal). (various references)

Hungarian

nagy jószág, nem kevert (unadulterated, unblended), nettó (clear, net), sikerült (succeeded), csinos (bonnie, bonny, compt, crackajack, crackerjack, crummy, cunning, cute, dolly, easy on the eye, easy to look at, foxy, good looking, handsome, have good looks, natty, nice-looking, nifty, personable, pretty, proper, seemly, she's got it, sightly, Spruce, tidy, tight, tricksy, trig), felhigítatlan, formás (shapely), jó alakú (shapely, stacked, strapping, to be well set up, well-built), jól végzett (well done), ízléses (aesthetic, classy, dainty, elegant, esthetic, smart, stylish, tasteful, tasty), rendes (decent, easy on the eye, easy to look at, good egg, jobholder, natty, neatness, nice, normal, orderly, ordinary, ornery, regular, right, there are no flies on him, tidy, trim, usual), választékos (chaste, ornate, polished), szarvasmarha (beeves), szellemes (be witty, facetious, ingenious, sally, sally of wit, smart, snappy, spirited, witty), szerencsés (apt, benign, favored, favoured, felicitous, fortunate, godspeed, gracious, happy, lucky, lucky to get off with a whole skin, providential, to be in luck, to click, well), takaros (dapper, dinky, natty, picked, proper, spruce, tidy, tricksy, trig, trim), találó (apposite, appropriate, apt, effective, felicitous, incisive, pertinent), talpraesett (adroit, apt, expeditious, pointful, smart, snappy, spirited), tiszt (admiralship, junior officer, officer, place), tiszta (blank, by the merest chance, chaste, clean, clear, distinct, fine, franchised, hygienic, legible, light, limpid, net, open and shut, pellucid, perspicuous, platonic, proof spirit, pure, saintly, sheer, sinless, sky clear, tabula rasa, transparent), oldal- és hátgyapjú. (various references)

Indonesian

cermat (accurate, careful, precise, scrupulous), apik (attractive, chic, tidy, trim), anggun (elegant, grace, graceful, handsome). (various references)

Italian

non diluito (undilated), netto (clean, clear, clear-cut, definite, emphatic, flat, net, sharp, sleek, smooth, unruffled), puro (absolute, chaste, clean, clear, dignified, maiden, maidenly, mere, pristine, pure, sheer, sinless, sterling), pulito (clean, cleaned, cleanly, clear, honest, housebroken, pure, tidy, undefiled), liscio (bald, glib, lank, makeup, plain, simple, sleek, slick, smooth, smoothly, straightforward, swimmingly, undeluted), lindo (clean, spick and span, tidy, trig, unsoiled), grazioso (affable, bonny, charming, dinky, friendly, good-natured, graceful, gracious, kind, lovable, lovely, nice, pleasant, pretty, sweet), gioielli (emblazonment, emblazonments, finery, jewellery, jewelry, saucy), di buon gusto, conciso (brief, concise, curt, pithy, short, succinct, tabloid, taut, terse, thumbnail), ben proporzionato (statuesque), ben fatto (personable, shapely, workmanlike), armonioso (clean, concordant, consonant, euphonious, harmonious, shapely, tuneful), acuto (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrid, acrimonious, acute, cute, discerning, discriminating, high, high note, high pitched, incisive, intense, keen, lancinating, lurid, nasty, penetrating, piercing, piping, poignant, pointed, severe, sharp, shrewd, shrill), accurato; grazioso; ordinato. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

瀟洒 (elegant, refined, trim), すすり泣く (all, all of a sudden, bitch, briskly, broke, clear, completely, directly, do something completely, erect, even, face with no make-up, gently, men's underwear, nimble, ought to do, penniless, quick, quickly, quietly, shapely, should do, sleeping soundly, smart, smooth to the touch, smoothly, softly, straight, thoroughly, to leaveundone, to make refreshed, to make relieved, to neglect, to sob, to standup, upright, utterly stark naked, wearing only one's birthday suit), ナパーム弾 (big-headed, caller ID, closest to pin, egotist, knee, knee-high socks, knee-length, knowledge, knowledge engineering, licence plate, NAFTA, Namibia, Nanking, Napa Valley, napalm bomb, naphtha, Naphthalin, napkin, Naples, napoleon, napolitain, narcism, Narcisse, narcissism, narcissist, narcist, narodniki, narration, narrator, narrow silhouette, narrow-band, narrowcasting, National Leaque, navigator, Navstar, near pin, near-miss, need, needle, needs, Nicaragua, nice, Nichrome, Nielsen, niobium, nonsense, nonsense comedy, nourish, nourishing cream, nourishment, number, number display, number eight, number one, number plate, numbering, numbering machine, nymphe, stuck-up person), 楚楚 (graceful), 楚々 (graceful), きりきり舞い (a whirl, awkward, awkwardness, clumsy, constrained, corrugated, crude, going round and round, jagged, jerkiness, mashed sweet potato, milled, notched, rushing a person off his feet, serrated, shrill, smart, spruce, stiff, stiff-mannered, stiltedness, strained atmosphere, thin and bony, unrefined), させ子 (candid, clean, feeling refreshed, feeling relieved, frank, fresh, have no inkling of, now, quickly, relief, some time ago, suddenly, then, trimmed, well, whore), 小気味よい (clever, gloating, smart), 小さっぱりした (tidy, trim), 小奇麗 (tidy, trim), 小じんまりと (snug). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

すっきり (clear, shapely), ニート , きりっとした (smart, spruce), しょうしゃ (casualty, elegant, exposure, firm, injured person, ourcompany, prosperous person, refined, sentry box, small company, small shrine, trading company, trim, victor, winner, wounded person, young person), そそ (graceful), さっぱり (feeling refreshed, feeling relieved, trimmed), こぎれい (tidy, trim), こきみよい (clever, gloating, smart), こさっぱりした (tidy, trim), こじんまりと (snug). (various references)

Korean 

청초한. (various references)

Manx

stuitt (stout, trim), skeoigh (snug, spruce, tidy), lhome (arid, bald, bare, fleshless, leafless, meagre, naked, nude, scraggy, severe, spare), jesh (adept, becoming, elegant, fancy, felicitous, groomed, ready, righthand, rightwing, seemly, smart, starboard;nice, suitable, tidy, trim), creoi (adamant, bitter, bitter of frost, blistering, blistering as language, difficult, distressing, dry, hard, hard-boiled, hard-set, hardy, heartless, near, near with money, obdurate, solid, steely, stiff, stiffen, stubborn, tough). (various references)

Papiamen

nèta (cleanly cut, net, precize), nèt (cleanly cut, net, precize). (various references)

Pig Latin

eatnay.(various references)

Portuguese

puro (absolute, chaste, clean, clean-fingered, crisp, fresh, genuine, immaculate, incorrupt, innocent, naked, plumb, pure, self, sheer, sinless, snow, snowy, soilless, spotless, stainless, sweet, taintless, true, unalloyed, unblemished, unblended, unspotted, unstained, unsullied, unworldly, virgin, virtuous), limpo (clean, clean-handed, cleanly, cleanly cut, cloudless, net, orderly, precise, sanitary, spotless, spruce, straight, tidy, trim, unspotted, unstained, unsullied, well-done). (various references)

Romanian

neamestecat (clean, pure, purely, unmixed), aspectuos (engaging, showy), bou (beef, blockhead, Bullock, mutt, ox, stick), bovine (bovines, cattle), curat (absolute, bald, blank, clean, cleanly, clear, clearly, fair, faultless, fine, fresh, genuine, honest, immaculate, orderly, Plumb, pristine, pure, raw, sheer, simple, sincere, snowy, snug, stainless, stark, straight, tidy, white), fãcut cu bun gust, frumos (artistic, artistical, beautiful, beautifully, bonny, brave, calm, canny, catchy, choice, clean, delicate, enjoyable, fair, fine, flowing, gay, generous, good, good looking, goodly, greatly, handsome, handsomely, lovely, merry, mild, nice, nicely, personable, pretty, proper, settled, shapely, slowly, specious, well favored, well-favoured, well-featured), îngrijit (accurate, accurately, beautiful, careful, clean, correct, groomed, neatly, orderly, prim, tidy, trim, well groomed), inteligent (apprehensive, argute, brainy, bright, clever, comprehensive, cute, intelligent, keen, lively, luminous, nimbly, politic, sagacious, sage, sharp, sharp-witted, smart, understanding), vitã (beast, cattle, live stock, stock), ordinat, plãcut (agreeable, cheerful, comely, dulcet, fine, genial, genially, gladsome, good, goodly, grateful, gratefully, gratifying, handsome, homey, kindly, likable, listenable, merry, nice, pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable, smooth, snug, sweet), simplu (agrestic, artless, austere, average, bald, bare, common, easy, elementary, grave, home-bred, homely, homespun, humble, humbly, mere, modest, natural, patriarchal, plain, plainly, primitive, pure, quiet, ready, russet, segregate, simple, simple minded, simply, single, singular, soft-headed, straight, straightforward, unaffected, unassuming, undisguised, unpretending, unpretentious, unsophisticated, unvarnished), simplu dar elegant, spiritual (bright, clever, ecclesiastic, ecclesiastical, ghostly, humorous, humoursome, immaterial, ingeniously, mental, moral, sacerdotal, sacred, smart, spirited, spiritual, witty), taur (bull, Bullock, ox), vacã (cow, moo), graţios (airily, daintily, flowing, graceful, gracefully, light, lightly, sightly, thoroughbred, winning, winsome). (various references)

Russian 

хорошо сделанный (well done, well-done), хороший (bona, desirable, good, good contriver, good liver, kind, nice, okay, plummy, pretty great, pretty neat), четкий (clear-cut, distinct, legible, orotund, trenchant, well-defined), чистоплотный (cleanly), точный (accurate, clockwork, correct, deadeye, definite, direct, exact, nice, perfect, pinpoint, precise, punctual, rigorous, strict), корова (bossy, cow), вол (bullock, ox), отточенный (sharp cut), опрятный (clean, clean-cut, dapper, natty, tidy, trig), неразбавленный (undiluted), аккуратный (accurate, exact, meticulous, natty, on time, orderly, precise, prim, prompt, punctual, spruce, tidy, trim), ловкий (adept, adroit, artful, clean, crafty, cunning, deft, dexterous, dextrous, dodgy, feat, habile, handy, knacky, knowing, light fingered, light-handed, natty, neat-handed, politic, sailorly, skilful, skillful, slick, swift-handed, tactical, tricky), бык (bull, ox, oxen, pier), искусный (adroit, artful, daedal, deft, delicate, habile, hackish, handy, ingenious, neat-handed, proficient, skilful, skilled, underwater, well-made, workmanlike), изящный (airy, dainty, delicate, dinky, distingue, dressy, elegant, fine, jimp, nice, nifty, nobby, polite, refined, slim, slinky). (various references)

Scottish

snasda (regular), sgoinneil (attentive, tidy, trim), sgiobalta (active, clever), sgibeach, sgibidh, piollach, laghach (pretty, tidy), inich, guamach, grinn (pretty, shapely), gibeach (fringed, hairy, shaggy), beitir. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

uredan (clean-cut, orderly, shipshape, taut, tidy), prikladan (apposite, appropriate, convenient, correlative, seemly, snug, suitable), krasan (admirable, entrancing, lovely), divan (admirable, adorable, davenport, delightful, delightsome, divan, divan bed, divine, dreamy, gorgeous, great, groovy, high-toned, jolly, lovely, magnificent, nifty, scrumptious, sofa, splendid, stunning, superb, terrific), čist (clean, clear, fine, fresh, limpid, mere, net, plain, pure, sheer, spotless, tidy, unadulterated, unmixed, unspotted). (various references)

Spanish

pulcro (dapper, sleek, smart, soigne, Spruce, tidy, trim). (various references)

Swedish

snygg (clean, clean-limbed, dishy, fine, good, good looking, good-looking, handsome, nice, precious, tidy, trim), nätt (dainty, dapper, natty, prettily, pretty, scantily, scanty, trim). (various references)

Thai

เรียบร้อย (straight), เหมาะสม (apt, become, becoming, befit, due, expedient, good, just, likely, meet, seemly, suitable). (various references)

Turkish

zeki (apt, as fresh as paint, astute, brainy, bright, brilliant, clear, clever, cute, discerning, ingenious, intellectual, intelligent, keen, keen-witted, longheaded, luminous, nifty, nimble-witted, penetrating, penetrative, perceptional, perspicacious, quick of comprehension, quick on the trigger, quick-witted, sapient, sharp, sharp-witted, shrewd, smart, sparkling, spiritual, subtile, subtle, understanding), zarif (canny, classy, clever, courtly, dainty, Dandy, dandyish, dinky, dressy, elegant, go-go, graceful, gracious, natty, pretty, pulchritudinous, recherche, sharp, stylish, sylphish, sylphlike, sylphy), temiz giyimli (smug, trig), temiz (chaste, clean, clean-handed, cleanly, clear, fair, fairly, fresh, kosher, neatly, pure, respectable, sanitary, Spruce, tidy, unpolluted, unsoiled, unspotted, unstained), susuz (anhydrous, dehydrated, droughty, dry, thirsty, waterless), sek (dry, sec, sharp, straight), sığır, muntazam (formal, in good order, regular), düzenli (clean-cut, coordinate, dainty, equal, even, harmonious, in good trim, in order, methodical, ordered, orderly, organized, regular, right, settled, snug, stated, steady, systematic, systematical, tidy), becerikli (adept, adroit, agile, capable, clever, deft, designing, dexterous, dextrous, efficient, facile, gifted, handsome, ingenious, knowing, light-handed, nimble-fingered, performing, practical, pushful, pushing, ready, resourceful, shifty, skilful, skilled, skillful, skilly, slick, smart, versatile, wise). (various references)

Turkmen 

rejeli (accurate, punctual). (various references)

Ukrainian

корова (bossy, cow), лаконічний (brief, laconic, laconical, pithy, short-spoken), акуратний (careful, natty, orderly, shipshape, snug, spry), охайний (clean, cleanly, deft, natty, orderly, shipshape, smart, smug, spiffed, tidy), вправний (able, accomplished, adroit, artful, canny, capable, clever, crafty, cunning, deft, good, handy, jemmy, neat-handed, nifty, practised, proficient), велика рогата худоба (cattle, nolt, nowt), відточений (elegant, well turned), бик (bull, nowt, ox), гарно припасований, ясний (articulate, categorical, clean-cut, clear, cloudless, coherent, definite, determinate, distinct, elegant, explicative, explicatory, fine, limpid, lucid, nude, obvious, orotund, pellucid, perspicuous, plain, robust, trenchant), чистий (absolute, austere, blank, bright, chaste, childlike, clean, cleanly, clear, crystal, immaculate, native, net, pristine, pure, silvery, spotless, unadulterated, unalloyed, unsophisticated, virginal, white), чепурний (cleanly, deft, dink, natty, trim), чіткий (articulate, clear-cut, coherent, crisp, orotund, plucky, precise, vivid, well-defined), скромний і елегантний, умілий (able, artful, capable, clever, daedal, dedal, efficient, handicraft, industrious, neat-handed, practised, proficient, skilful, skillful, workmanlike), ставний (clean-limbed, well-built), стрункий (gimp, jimp, shapely, svelte, well knit, well turned), віл (beef, nowt, ox, stag). (various references)

Vietnamese 

ngăn nắp rõ ràng, sạch gọn, rành mạch; ngắn gọn khéo. (various references)

Welsh

twt (smart, tidy, tut!), taclus (tidy, trim), destlus, del (pretty), cymen (becoming, skillful, wise), cryno (compact, tidy). (various references)

gir. (various references)

castigatus, compta, meraco, munda, mundae, mundam, mundas, mundi, mundis, mundissima, mundissimae, mundissimis, mundissimo, mundo, mundos, mundum, mundus, nitidus, scita, scitis, scito, tersus, thersa. (various references)

net. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "neat": neaten, neatened, neatening, neatens, neater, neatest, neath, neatherd, neatherds, neatly, neatness, neatnesses, neats. (additional references)

Words ending with "neat": overneat. (additional references)

Words containing "neat": beneath, cuneate, cuneated, cuneatic, delineate, delineated, delineates, delineating, delineation, delineations, delineative, delineator, delineators, interlineation, interlineations, lineate, lineated, lineation, lineations, underneath, uneatable, uneaten. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Neat" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ena, enapt, Enata, enet, enot, Enott, enta, inaat, kneat, n'a, nae, Naea, Naei, naet, Nait, Namath, nata, nate, natt, naut, Nautt, nayat, neac, nead, neah, neaht, nealt, neam, nean, neant, nearty, neas, neast, neata, neate, neath, neato, neats, neatt, neaty, Neau, neay, neaz, Neca, Necati, nect, neej, neet, Neeta, Neete, neety, nefax, nega, Negarty, negat, nei, neish, neist, neith, neiz, Nejat, nelt, nema, Nent, neoz, neqat, nerat, nert, nesaf, nete, netu, neu, neut, neuto, nevah, Newart, ngat, Ngati, niag, niat, Niaz, niet, nihat, nimat, Njema, noat, noath, noit, nuat, nuet, nuit, nuta, Nyeht, oeat, sneat. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: ante, etna.

-1 letter: ane, ant, ate, eat, eta, nae, net, tae, tan, tea, ten.

-2 letters: ae, an, at, en, et, na, ne, ta.

+1 letter: agent, ament, anent, antae, anted, antes, antre, atone, eaten, enact, enate, entia, etnas, laten, leant, meant, menta, nates, neath, neats, oaten, paten, stane, taken, tenia, thane, tinea, yenta.

+2 letters: absent, accent, acetin, adnate, advent, agents, agnate, aments, anenst, anklet, ansate, anteed, anthem, anther, antler, antres, ardent, argent, arpent, ascent, assent, astern, atoned, atoner, atones, attend, attent, attune, atween, auntie, bannet, banter, batmen, batten, beaten, bezant, binate, butane, cadent, canted, canter, cantle, carnet, catena, centai, cental, centas, centra, cetane, decant, dental, detain, donate, eating, eluant, enacts, enates, enatic, enrapt, entail, entera, entrap, errant, etalon, etamin, ethane, extant, fanjet, fasten, fatten, gannet, garnet, gelant, hanted, hantle, hapten, hasten, hetman, ingate, inmate, innate, intake, lament, lanate, lancet, lateen, latens, latent, latten, learnt, levant, lunate, magnet, mantel, mantes, mantle, marten, mental, native, natter, nature, neaten, neater, neatly, nectar, negate, notate, nutate, octane, omenta, ornate, panted, pantie, parent, patens, patent, patine, patten, peanut, pedant, pentad, petnap, pineta, planet, platen, ranted, ranter, ratine, ratten, recant, rental, retain, retina, sanest, sateen, secant, sejant, senate, sextan, snathe, stamen, stance, staned, stanes, sterna, taenia, talent, tamein, tandem, tanged, tangle, tanked, tanker, tanned, tanner, tanrec, tauten, tavern, tawney, taxmen, tenace, tenail, tenant, teniae, tenias, teopan, tetany, thanes, thenal, thenar, tineal, tineas, tisane, tolane, trance, trepan, unseat, untame, wanted, wanter, yentas, zeatin, zonate.