Crossword clues for neatest
neatest
- Most like a pin?
- Most clever
- Most shipshape
- Most spiffy
- Most adroit
- Most like Felix Unger
- Most immaculate
- Least sloppy
- The ultimate in dexterity
- Seat ten (anag)
- Most worthy of a handwriting award
- Most perfectly arranged in exact order so don't touch anything
- Most organized
- Most like easy-to-read penmanship
- Most groovy
- Most clean
- Maximally readable
- Least slobby
- Least in need of a cleanup
- Clever to the max
- Like prizewinning handwriting
- Working best, as a trick
- Least like a 9-Down
- Best at an inspection, say
- Most smart
- Tops in handwriting, say
- Least disordered
- Least messy
- Most fastidious
- Most orderly
- Most skillful
- Least cluttered
- Best-kept
- Most tidy
- Most elegant farm animal is French
- Most elegant to dine in comfortable home
- Had meal in cosy home with the least clutter around?
- Dined in cosy place, most elegant
- Dine in residence that's most immaculate
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Neat \Neat\, a. [Compar. Neater; superl. Neatest.] [OE. nett, F. nett, fr. L. nitidus, fr. nitere to shine. Cf. Nitid, Net, a., Natty.]
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Free from that which soils, defiles, or disorders; clean; cleanly; tidy.
If you were to see her, you would wonder what poor body it was that was so surprisingly neat and clean.
--Law. Free from what is unbecoming, inappropriate, or tawdry; simple and becoming; pleasing with simplicity; tasteful; chaste; as, a neat style; a neat dress.
Free from admixture or adulteration; good of its kind; as, neat brandy; to drink one's vodka neat. Hence: (Chem.) Pure; undiluted; as, dissolved in neat acetone. ``Our old wine neat.''
--Chapman.Excellent in character, skill, or performance, etc.; nice; finished; adroit; as, a neat design; a neat thief.
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With all deductions or allowances made; net.
Note: [In this sense usually written net. See Net, a., 3.]
neat line (Civil Engin.), a line to which work is to be built or formed.
Neat work, work built or formed to neat lines.
Syn: Nice; pure; cleanly; tidy; trim; spruce.
Wiktionary
a. (en-superlative of: neat)
Usage examples of "neatest".
A garnet brooch deftly unclipped from the bombasine blouse worn by a nanny earned a gaol term or transportion no different to the neatest unclipping of a diamond pin from the silk bodice of a duchess.
She had put on the neatest and freshest white frock imaginable, and with bare shoulders and a little necklace, and a light blue sash, she looked the image of youthful innocence and girlish happiness.
Rebecca said, shaking at Jos a pretty little finger covered with the neatest French kid glove.
He said it was the neatest match he had ever seen, and paid for the horses on the spot.
The blocks are of all manner of shapes and sizes, but yet are fitted together with the neatest exactness.
Now she took the trousers from Sir Jasper, and quickly turning them inside out blew the cigar ash from the surface of the cloth, and commenced to work upon the hole, gathering its edges together and stitching it in the manner of a sutured wound, this being much the quickest and neatest way under the prevailing circumstances.
He was, Rachel decided, the neatest and most thoughtful man she had ever met.
There were several gentlemen, all Prince Regents, and one sweet lady, charming in every way, from the well-arranged blonde tresses to the neatest little shoe that ever adorned a Cinderella foot.
I used to let him use the dark room, even encouraged him to use it, and he has never been the neatest person.
I had, in his neatest and most formal suit, with clean shirt, and tie.
She wore the neatest of blue linen skirts and blouses, with a linen collar and white tie.
They were using this because it was the fastest and neatest to apply, it was guaranteed to cover in one coat, and it would dry very quickly.
Yet there sits your submarine in the neatest little sand patch you ever saw.
She had the sweetest face that Jack had ever seen, and the neatest of bodies, like a dancer.
Hancock caught the Johnnies that morning the neatest you ever saw anything in your life.