neutral

[Neu·tral]

A person or a nation that takes no part in a contest between others; one who is neutral.

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Not engaged on either side; not taking part with or assisting either of two or more contending parties; neuter; indifferent.

Noun
one who does not side with any party in a war or dispute

Adjective S.
lacking hue; "neutral colors like back or white"

Adjective S.
lacking distinguishing quality or characteristics; "a neutral personality that made no impression whatever"

Adjective S.
not supporting or favoring either side in a war, dispute, or contest

Adjective S.
neither moral nor immoral; neither good nor evil, right nor wrong

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Adjective S.
having no personal preference; "impersonal criticism"; "a neutral observer"

Adjective
of no distinctive quality or characteristics or type

Adjective
having no net electric charge; not electrified

Adjective S.
having only a limited ability to react chemically; not active; "inert matter"; "an indifferent chemical in a reaction"


a.
Not engaged on either side; not taking part with or assisting either of two or more contending parties; neuter; indifferent.

a.
Neither good nor bad; of medium quality; middling; not decided or pronounced.

a.
Neuter. See Neuter, a., 3.

a.
Having neither acid nor basic properties; unable to turn red litmus blue or blue litmus red; -- said of certain salts or other compounds. Contrasted with acid, and alkaline.

n.
A person or a nation that takes no part in a contest between others; one who is neutral.


Neutral

Neu"tral , a. [L. neutralis, fr. neuter. See Neuter.] 1. Not engaged on either side; not taking part with or assisting either of two or more contending parties; neuter; indifferent.
The heart can not possibly remain neutral, but constantly takes part one way or the other.
2. Neither good nor bad; of medium quality; middling; not decided or pronounced.
Some things good, and some things ill, do seem, And neutral some, in her fantastic eye.
3. (Biol.) Neuter. See Neuter, a., 3. 4. (Chem.) Having neither acid nor basic properties; unable to turn red litmus blue or blue litmus red; -- said of certain salts or other compounds. Contrasted with acid, and alkaline. Neutral axis, Neutral surface (Mech.), that line or plane, in a beam under transverse pressure, at which the fibers are neither stretched nor compressed, or where the longitudinal stress is zero. See Axis. -- Neutral equilibrium (Mech.), the kind of equilibrium of a body so placed that when moved slighty it neither tends to return to its former position not depart more widely from it, as a perfect sphere or cylinder on a horizontal plane. -- Neutral salt (Chem.), a salt formed by the complete replacement of the hydrogen in an acid or base; in the former case by a positive or basic, in the latter by a negative or acid, element or radical. -- Neutral tint, a bluish gray pigment, used in water colors, made by mixing indigo or other blue some warm color. the shades vary greatly. -- Neutral vowel, the vowel element having an obscure and indefinite quality, such as is commonly taken by the vowel in many unaccented syllables. It is regarded by some as identical with the &ucr; in up, and is called also the natural vowel, as unformed by art and effort. See Guide to Pronunciation, § 17.

Neutral

Neu"tral , n. A person or a nation that takes no part in a contest between others; one who is neutral.
The neutral, as far as commerce extends, becomes a party in the war.

Not engaged on either side; not taking part with or assisting either of two or more contending parties; neuter; indifferent.

A person or a nation that takes no part in a contest between others; one who is neutral.

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Usage Examples

Sayles could pull a performance out of a dog. I'm serious. He was just amazing. The world could fall apart and he remained on neutral.

I think it's harder for people than it should be. But as more and more of us become carbon neutral and change the patterns in our lives to be part of the solution instead of part of the problem, we are now beginning to see the changes in policy that are needed.

So that ideas of sort of relaxed symmetry have been something for years that I have been concerned with because I think that symmetry is a neutral shape as opposed to a form of design.

The Obama administration now has regulations that tells them that they can no longer promote marriage to these young girls. They can no longer promote marriage as a way of avoiding poverty and bad choices that they make in their life. They can no longer even teach abstinence education. They have to be neutral with respect to how people behave.

The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.

Listen - of course money changes everything, but so does sunlight, and so does food: These are powerful but neutral energy sources, neither inherently good nor evil but shaped only by the way we use them.

The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

Even those who, like me, believe that Roe v. Wade and the decisions elaborating on reproductive rights were constitutionally correct must recognize that, for many on the right, the sudden and relatively sloppily reasoned character of the abortion rulings... did real damage to the Court's reputation as a relatively neutral arbiter of legal disputes.

Neutral men are the devil's allies.

Nature is neutral.

I don't believe there's any inherent darkness at the center of religion at all. I think religion actually is a morally neutral force.

Like all technology, social media is neutral but is best put to work in the service of building a better world.

Technology is not good, it's neutral.

Technology is not neutral.

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