Usually means: Tidy and orderly in appearance.
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We found 47 dictionaries that define the word neat:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. neat: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. NEAT, neat, neat: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. neat, neat: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. neat: Collins English Dictionary
  5. neat: Vocabulary.com
  6. Neat, neat: Wordnik
  7. neat: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. neat: Wiktionary
  9. neat: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. neat: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. neat: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. neat: Dictionary.com
  13. neat (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. neat: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. NEAT, Neat (TV series), Neat (bartending), Neat: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Neat: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. neat: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. neat: Rhymezone
  19. neat: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. neat: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. neat: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. neat: Free Dictionary
  23. neat: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. neat: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. neat: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. neat: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Epicurus.com Spirits Glossary (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. neat: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. neat: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. neat: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. NEAT: Acronym Finder
  2. Tea Terms (No longer online)
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. SPIRITS Terminology (No longer online)
  5. neat: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. NEAT: Zoom Astronomy Glossary

Slang (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. neat, neat: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. neat: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. American-Australian Slang Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Neat (Neato): 1960's Slang
  5. neat: ESL Slang page

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms: Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations (No longer online)
  2. Happy Hour Spirit & Liqueur Dictionary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Clean, tidy; free from dirt or impurities.
adjective:  Free from contaminants; unadulterated, undiluted. Particularly of liquor and cocktails; see usage below.
adjective:  (chemistry) Conditions with a liquid reagent or gas performed with no standard solvent or cosolvent.
adjective:  (archaic) With all deductions or allowances made; net.
adjective:  Having a simple elegance or style; clean, trim, tidy, tasteful.
adjective:  Well-executed or delivered; clever, skillful, precise.
adjective:  Facile; missing complexity or details in the favor of convenience or simplicity.
adjective:  (Canada, US, colloquial) Good, excellent, desirable.
noun:  (informal) An artificial intelligence researcher who believes that solutions should be elegant, clear and provably correct. Compare scruffy.
noun:  (archaic) A bull or cow.
noun:  (archaic) Cattle collectively.
noun:  A surname from Middle English.
adjective:  Obsolete form of net (“remaining after expenses or deductions”). [(obsolete) Good, desirable; clean, decent, clear.]
noun:  (computing theory) Acronym of neuroevolution of augmenting topologies: a genetic algorithm for the generation of evolving artificial neural networks.
noun:  (exercise) Acronym of non-exercise activity thermogenesis.

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