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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“It was tricky. I was moving fast, clipped the eighth hurdler and lost my balance. That’s never happened to me before.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2026

From social media posts clipped from livestreamed events with the astronauts to an extraordinary portfolio of celestial photographs, viewers caught an eyeful of Artemis II.

From Barron's • Apr. 11, 2026

But even if the opinion is written in the clipped vocabulary of habeas review, the stakes are larger than that language suggests.

From Slate • Apr. 10, 2026

In footage shared earlier this week, Woods told officers that he was briefly distracted by his phone before he clipped the trailer of a vehicle in front of him.

From Salon • Apr. 2, 2026

Pi jumps and runs in circles, making it hard for me to get him clipped in.

From "The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl" by Stacy McAnulty

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