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Neutral   /nˈutrəl/   Listen
Neutral

adjective
1.
Having no personal preference.  Synonym: impersonal.  "A neutral observer"
2.
Having only a limited ability to react chemically; chemically inactive.  Synonyms: indifferent, inert.  "An indifferent chemical in a reaction"
3.
Not supporting or favoring either side in a war, dispute, or contest.
4.
Possessing no distinctive quality or characteristics.
5.
Having no hue.  Synonym: achromatic.
6.
Lacking distinguishing quality or characteristics.
7.
Having no net electric charge.  Synonym: electroneutral.
noun
1.
One who does not side with any party in a war or dispute.



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"Neutral" Quotes from Famous Books



... taken at Annapolis and one of his men. Pote entreated the Indians to be allowed to go in the schooner, but could not prevail. He was taken by way of Shepody Bay up the River Petitcodiac in a small schooner belonging to one of the "neutral French." The next day's journey brought them to the carrying place between the Petitcodiac and the Canaan river, ...
— Glimpses of the Past - History of the River St. John, A.D. 1604-1784 • W. O. Raymond
... an ounce of tobacco in vain upon the neutral terrace; neither sight nor sound rewarded him, and the dinner-hour summoned him at length from the scene of disappointment. On the next, it rained; but nothing, neither business nor weather, neither prospective poverty nor present hardship, could now divert the young man from the service of ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 5 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson
... are millions of gorgeous hues to a scarcity of neutral tints; yet the pictures that are painted in sombre semi-tones and have no one positive colour in them are always pronounced the nearest to nature. When a painter sets his palette, he dares not approach the gold of the sunset and dawn, or the flame ...
— Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida - Selected from the Works of Ouida • Ouida
... The mockery of the trial commenced on the 10th of December. Malesherbes, Tronchet, and Deseze defended him fearlessly and eloquently, but it was useless—the king was condemned beforehand. Robespierre and Marat led the assault. The Girondists, themselves menaced and alarmed, stood neutral; but on the 15th of January the question was put to the Assembly, "Is Louis Capet, formerly King of the French, guilty of conspiracy and attempt against the ...
— In the Reign of Terror - The Adventures of a Westminster Boy • G. A. Henty
... hue then gradually melted into a ruddier tone, which first darkened into purple and red and then rapidly changed to a greenish sort of neutral tone that, after an interval, finally became merged into the pure ultramarine of the zenith; for, the heavens were now as clear as a bell, no mist or fog or cloud obscuring the ...
— Bob Strong's Holidays - Adrift in the Channel • John Conroy Hutcheson


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