clipped

[klipt] / klɪpt /

ADJECTIVE

terse

Synonyms

STRONGEST

brusque concise cryptic curt elliptical incisive laconic pithy precise succinct trenchant

WEAK

abrupt aphoristic boiled down breviloquent clear-cut close compact compendiary compendious condensed crisp cut to the bone epigrammatic exact gnomic in a nutshell lean neat pointed sententious short and sweet snappy summary taut to the point

Antonyms

STRONGEST

gentle kind lengthy long-winded nice polite verbose wordy

WEAK

prolix

Example Sentences

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Instead, authors turned out a lot of flat, declarative prose; clipped, “masculine” dialogue; and a form of realism bound to personal experience.

From The Wall Street Journal

Dad’s hands, with nails clipped short and neat.

From Literature

Walking on tiptoe, he led Grief outside and clipped his collar to the chain attached to the corner of the garage.

From Literature

Chip stocks AMD, Qualcomm and Arm got clipped too, and even Alphabet’s results weren’t good enough.

From The Wall Street Journal

He kept a pager clipped to his belt.

From The Wall Street Journal

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