Englishneutral
adjective
1 Dorothy has no axe to grind. She's completely neutral:
impartial, unbiased, unprejudiced, objective, without favouritism, open-minded, non-partisan, non-discriminatory, disinterested, even-handed, equitable, fair, fair-minded, dispassionate, detached, impersonal, unemotional, clinical, indifferent, removed;
uninvolved, uncommitted.
▷antonyms biased, partisan.
2 during the Second World War Portugal remained neutral:
unaligned, non-aligned, unaffiliated, unallied, non-allied, non-participating, uninvolved, non-interventionist;
non-combatant, non-belligerent, non-combative, non-fighting, anti-war.
▷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 colour stand out:
pale, pastel, light-toned;
beige, cream, taupe, oatmeal, ecru, buff, fawn, grey, greige, sand, stone-coloured, stone, mushroom, putty;
colourless, uncoloured, washed out, indefinite, indistinct, indeterminate, neither one thing nor the other, insipid, nondescript, toneless, dull, drab;
rare achromatic, achromic.
▷antonyms bright, colourful.
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