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say it: neet
neat is an adjective meaning "clean or organized". It is pronounced /ˈnit/ — neet. It carries 6 recorded senses.
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”
superficially impressive, but lacking depth and attention to the true complexities of a subject
“too facile a solution for so complex a problem”
“it was a neat plan, but bound to fail”
“a slick advertising campaign”
(of an alcoholic drink) without water
“took his whiskey neat”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for neat come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.