Englishneutral
adjective
1 Dorothy has no axe to grind. She's completely neutral:
impartial, unbiased, unprejudiced, objective, without favoritism, open-minded, nonpartisan, nondiscriminatory, disinterested, even-handed, equitable, fair, fair-minded, dispassionate, detached, impersonal, unemotional, clinical, indifferent, removed;
uninvolved, uncommitted.
▷antonyms biased, partisan.
2 during World War II, Portugal remained neutral:
unaligned, nonaligned, unaffiliated, unallied, nonallied, nonparticipating, uninvolved, noninterventionist;
noncombatant, nonbelligerent, noncombative, nonfighting, antiwar.
▷antonyms combatant, belligerent.
3 she racked her brain desperately for a neutral topic of conversation:
inoffensive, bland, unobjectionable, unexceptionable, anodyne, unremarkable, ordinary, commonplace, run-of-the-mill, everyday;
safe, harmless, innocuous.
▷antonyms provocative, offensive.
4 a neutral background will make any small splash of color stand out:
pale, pastel, light-toned;
beige, cream, taupe, oatmeal, ecru, buff, fawn, gray, greige, sand, stone-colored, stone, mushroom, putty;
colorless, uncolored, washed out, indefinite, indistinct, indeterminate, neither one thing nor the other, insipid, nondescript, toneless, dull, drab;
rare achromatic, achromic.
▷antonyms bright, colorful.
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