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neat

/niːt/

adjective1 of 2

Not messy; clean and orderly; simple and effective

  • “If you make a mistake, just cross it out neatly.”Tatoeba
  • “I want to keep my room as neat as possible.”Tatoeba

Sentences from Tatoeba show real usage. A word can have several meanings, so a sentence may use another one.

noun2 of 2

An artificial intelligence researcher who believes that solutions should be elegant, clear and provably correct. Compare scruffy.

Source: New Academic Word List (Browne, Culligan & Phillips) (CC BY-SA 4.0); Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0); Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR)

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