neat (adj.) Copy link Outline 1. comptus (strictly of hair properly dressed2. nĭtĭdus (well-conditioned; elegant, spruce3. mundus (clean; and so elegant, smart)4. concinnus (well-adjusted, in good taste) • neat (adj.): nearest words, 1. comptus (strictly of hair properly dressed: also in wider sense): waiters, properly begirt and n., praecincti recte pueri c.que, Hor. S. 2, 8, 70: but the word usu. carries with it the notion of ornament. Join: nitidus et comptus [in dicendo], Quint. 10, 1, 79 (where elegance is indicated). 2. nĭtĭdus (well-conditioned; elegant, spruce: also a degree beyond the Eng.): neat (dandified) with well-combed locks, pexo capillo nitidus, Cic. Cat. 2, 10, 22: cf. Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 83, where it is opp. to rusticus (the well-dressed cit and the clown). 3. mundus (clean; and so elegant, smart): cf. Cic. Fin. 2, 8, 23, where luxurious persons (asoti) are described as, mundi, elegantes (choice and dainty in their mode of life): n. and smart from the pumice of the Sosii (of a book), Sosiorum pumice m., Hor. Ep. 1, 20, 2 (cf. Hor. Od. 1, 5, 5, simplex munditiis; where the two words together express in a poetical way the sense of the Eng.). 4. concinnus (well-adjusted, in good taste): v. elegant.