Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: neatness
IPA transcription: [n'itnəs]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: tidiness, neatness
    Meaning: the trait of being neat and orderly
  • Synonyms: neatness, spruceness
    Meaning: the state of being neat and smart and trim
Usage examples
  • Arrayed with scrupulous neatness
  • He wrote with extraordinary neatness.
  • He did what he had to do with neatness and dispatch.
  • Bridget was neatness itself, but she had no conception of the value of time.
  • Finally the girls came to the old Copp homestead . . . a place of such exceeding external neatness that even Green Gables would have suffered by contrast.
  • No! their errors are thrust upon them; they become selfish per force, cowards from their tenacious regard for that personal neatness which they so labour to preserve.