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Definitions

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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Police have released body camera footage showing Tiger Woods after he clipped a truck and rolled his car in Florida last month.

From BBC • Apr. 2, 2026

Woods still clipped the back end of the trailer, resulting in the crash.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

The Martin County Sheriff’s Department said that Woods had tried to overtake another vehicle when his Land Rover clipped it, listing and then rolling over.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2026

The recent oil price spike, which has added around $10 a barrel to WTI crude over the past month, has also clipped around 10 percentage points from the odds of a June Fed rate cut.

From Barron's • Mar. 4, 2026

His voice was suddenly clipped, terse, as if what he was about to say made him angry.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.