Definition: 1. Not supporting or helping either side in a disagreement, competition, etc. 2. One who does not side with any party in a war or dispute. 3. Neither moral nor immoral; neither good nor evil, right nor wrong. 4. Having no personal preference.
Use 'neutral' in a sentence:
1. Researching this phenomenon, another team asked volunteers to watch boring, sad, or neutral films, during which they could self-administer electric shocks.
2. We decided to meet on neutral ground.
3. What's more, both boys and girls wore what were thought of as gender-neutral dresses.
4. The bored volunteers shocked themselves more and harder than the sad or neutral ones did.
5. I didn't take my father's or my mother's side; I tried to remain neutral.
6. Three in every five interviewed felt that the budget was neutral and they would be no better off.
7. Neutral colours like brown, cream and black are practical choices for this sort of bag.
8. This is a neutral solution.
9. Male economists point the opposite way: 80% say women are favored or the process is neutral.
10. You might feel your heart racing or your face turning red, but do whatever you can to remain neutral in both your words and actions.
11. They picked up momentum, then slipped into neutral and coasted quietly down the slope.
12. They have maintained a consistently neutral stance.
13. He told her about the death, describing the events in as neutral a manner as he could.
14. Those who had decided to remain neutral in the struggle now found themselves required to take sides.
15. Three in every five interviewed felt that the Budget was neutral and they would be no better off.
16. At the horizon the land mass becomes a continuous pale neutral grey, almost blending with the sky.
17. You can make your flights carbon neutral by planting trees to make up for the greenhouse gas emissions.
18. When you have two adversaries negotiating, you need to be on neutral territory.
19. It would be hard to find a person who is neutral, or simply doesn't care one way or the other.
20. A neutral country was asked to help settle the dispute.
21. At the core of the book is the idea that "technology is neutral."
22. The picture of the world that would seem to emerge from this story is that it is a morally neutral place.
23. Switzerland joined UN after having been neutral for decades.
24. Sometimes I'm drawn toward the neutral view; sometimes I'm drawn toward the thought that being alive per se is good.
25. At the core of the book is the idea that "technology is neutral, but people aren't."
26. Isabel put her magazine down and said in a neutral voice, "You're very late, darling."
27. Isabel put her magazine down and said in a neutral voice, 'You're very late, darling.'
28. Both sides had agreed to use neutral terms in their references to each other, avoiding controversial ones.
29. A neutron is simply a neutral particle in the nucleus of an atom.
30. Neutral and pale lip colors look washed out in photographs, so choose a lipstick that's one to two shades brighter than what you normally wear.
31. In addition to the 81 positive comments, 26 students had neutral, mixed, negative or off topic views.
32. Graham put the van in neutral and jumped out into the road.
33. They expressed the hope that he would pursue a neutral and balanced policy for the sake of national concord.
34. Pure water is neutral with a pH of 7.
35. 'So you told her?' he said in a neutral tone of voice.
36. At the horizon the land mass becomes a continuous pale neutral grey.
37. They showed threatening, pleasant and neutral expressions.
38. The fiction that 'he' is a neutral shorthand for 'he or she' is no longer acceptable to many.
39. Let's meet on neutral territory.
40. Switzerland was neutral during the war.
41. The ground wire in the house is connected to the neutral wire.
42. Journalists are supposed to be politically neutral.
43. You'll get more wear out of a hat if you choose one in a neutral colour.
44. The room was decorated in neutrals.
45. His response, if you asked him point-blank about her battle, was to giggle nervously, "I'm kind of a neutral bystander on that one, " he said.
46. Mary suggests using a neutral lip pencil.
47. He had departed from his prepared testimony, which was considered to be neutral.
48. In that war England was not an ally; she was neutral.
49. A plasma is a quasineutral gas of charged and neutral particles which exhibits collective behavior.