1. Clean or organized
   "a neat room"; "her neat dress";
   - orderly
    
2. Showing care in execution
   "neat homework"; "neat handwriting"
    
3. Free from clumsiness; precisely or deftly executed
   "The basketball player made a neat catch";
   - clean, slick
    
4. Excellent
   "a neat sports car";
   - bang-up [N. Amer, informal], bully [informal], corking [Brit, informal], cracking [Brit, informal], dandy [informal], great, groovy [informal], keen, nifty [informal], not bad [informal], peachy, slap-up [informal], swell [informal], smashing [Brit, informal], old, not half bad [informal], grouse [Austral, NZ, informal], ripper [Austral, informal], lovely
    
5. (of an alcoholic drink) without water
   "took his whiskey neat";
   - straight, full-strength

Derived forms: neatest, neater

See also: adroit, good, tidy, undiluted

Encyclopedia: Neat, Gary