Synonyms for neat
- adjective
- noun
Synonyms by meaning
Adjective
1. Tidy — good, excellent, desirable; interesting; cool
tidy, nice, cool, elegant, great, gurt UK, good, wonderful, excellent, dainty, immaculate, tasteful, dandy, bang-up informal, bad, not bad, precise, old, dapper, keen, pure, pyore US, finished, glorious
2. Simple — facile; missing complexity or details in the favor of convenience or simplicity
simple, slick, adroit, deft, facile, dexterous, dextrous UK, masterly
Noun
Definitions
- adj. 1
Facile; missing complexity or details in the favor of convenience or simplicity.
Courts should not reduce this case to a neat set of legal rules.
- adj. 2
Good, excellent, desirable; interesting; cool.
Hey, neat convertible, man.
- n. 1
An artificial intelligence researcher who believes that solutions should be elegant, clear and provably correct. Compare scruffy.
Related words
- Word family
- neaten neatly neatness neato
- Phrases
- neat freak
Forms
- Plural
- neats → cows, cattles, neatbeasts…
Choose the right word
A clean cut has no ragged edges; a neat stroke just does what is intended. Nice is stronger than neat, implying value and beauty; a cheap, coarse dress may be perfectly neat, but would not be termed nice.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- wonderful The music we listened to last night was wonderful.
- excellent Tom's car is well-kept and in excellent condition.
- elegant Her dress was a simple yet elegant shade of black.
- tidy We will tidy up our room so that Mom is satisfied.
- slick The statues in the museum courtyard were slick with rain.
- deft He tried to conceal his ineptitude in a not-so-deft sleight of hand.
By length
- 2 letters
- ox1
- 3 letters
- old1, bad1, cow1
- 4 letters
- good1, nice1, cool1, pure1, keen1, tidy2, deft1, prim1, gimp, gurt, nolt1
- 5 letters
- great1, clean1, slick1, dandy2, terse1, pyore
- 6 letters
- simple2, cattle2, dainty2, dapper2, facile2, adroit2
- 7 letters
- regular3, precise2, elegant3, orderly3
- 8 letters
- straight1, finished2, artistic3, glorious3, tasteful2, masterly3, dextrous2
- 9 letters
- wonderful3, excellent3, dexterous, undiluted4, neatbeast
- 10 letters
- immaculate4
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (tidy2 = 2 syllables).