Crossword-Solution: NEAT
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Neat | n. sing. & pl. | Cattle of the genus Bos, as distinguished from horses, sheep, and goats; an animal of the genus Bos; as, a neat's tongue; a neat's foot. |
| Neat | n. | Of or pertaining to the genus Bos, or to cattle of that genus; as, neat cattle. |
| Neat | a. | Free from that which soils, defiles, or disorders; clean; cleanly; tidy. |
| Neat | a. | Free from what is unbecoming, inappropriate, or tawdry; simple and becoming; pleasing with simplicity; tasteful; chaste; as, a neat style; a neat dress. |
| Neat | a. | Free from admixture or adulteration; good of its kind; as, neat brandy. |
| Neat | a. | Excellent in character, skill, or performance, etc.; nice; finished; adroit; as, a neat design; a neat thief. |
| Neat | a. | With all deductions or allowances made; net. [In this sense usually written net. See Net, a., 3.] |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| NEAT | anagram | ANET, ANTE, ATEN, ETAN, ETNA, NATE, NETA, TAEN, TANE, TEAN, TENA |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
REETA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with NEAT (5)
This collection, running probably to some 200 Fables, after being interpolated and edited by the Alexandrine grammarians, was turned into neat Latin iambics by Phædrus, a Greek freedman of Augustus in the early years of the Christian era.
Contrasting vividly with this ruin was the neat dresser, stained in the fashion, pale green, and with a number of copper and tin vessels below it, the wallpaper imitating blue and white tiles, and a couple of coloured supplements fluttering from the walls above the kitchen range.
The price was right, and the racing stripe on the case looked kind of neat, but its performance left something to be desired.
The twins are well-behaved children, biddable, meek, neat about their clothes, and always mindful of the proprieties they have learned at summer hotels.
During the evening, by the light of the fire in the kitchen, Tip carefully rounded all the edges of the joints and smoothed the rough places in a neat and workmanlike manner.
Quotes with NEAT (3)
People talk about the happy quiet that can exist between two loves, but this, too, was great; sitting between his sister and his brother, saying nothing, eating. Before the world existed, before it was populated, and before there were wars and jobs and colleges and movies and clothes and opinions and foreign travel -- before all of these things there had been only one person, Zora, and only one place: a tent in the living room made from chairs and bed-sheets. After a few year…
I'm tired of this back-slappin' "isn't humanity neat" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes.
Explanations exist; they have existed for all time; there is always a well-known solution to every human problem — neat, plausible, and wrong.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Rock & Roll, S&S, Slate, The Atlantic, Three Across, TIME, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 1,487 times in crossword archives (1942–2025).