neat

Meanings

Adjective

• Clean, tidy; free from dirt or impurities.
• Free from contaminants; unadulterated, undiluted. Particularly of liquor and cocktails; see usage below.
• Conditions with a liquid reagent or gas performed with no standard solvent or cosolvent.
• With all deductions or allowances made; net.
• Having a simple elegance or style; clean, trim, tidy, tasteful.
• Well-executed or delivered; clever, skillful, precise.
• Facile; missing complexity or details in the favor of convenience or simplicity.
• Good, excellent, desirable.

Noun

• An artificial intelligence researcher who believes that solutions should be elegant, clear and provably correct. Compare scruffy.
• A bull or cow.
• Cattle collectively.

Related

Opposite words

• on the rocks

Origin

• From Middle English nete, neat, from Old English nēat, from Proto-Germanic *nautą, from Proto-Indo-European *newd-. Cognate with Dutch noot, dialectal German Noß, Alemannic German Nooss, Swedish nöt, Icelandic naut and Faroese neyt More at note.